Climate

Hurricane Ida alone caused more than $60 billion in damages, making it one of the five most costly U.S. hurricanes on record since 1980. Forecasters ran out of names for a record second year in a row.

As much as $7,500 could be available to each home or business owner who experienced property damage as a result of three storms that hit Connecticut in August and September.

He decided to ditch TCI because of the record price of gas at the pump, which is at a seven-year high.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, we bring together both skeptics and believers in an attempt to pin down exactly what constitutes “woo-woo.”

A team of researchers is studying the combined threat of sea level rise and extreme weather at seven coastal sites in New England.

How much of the change in water quality that's happening in some New England lakes is the result of industry, and how much is because of a changing climate? A group of scientists and the Environmental Protection Agency hope some very old and very small cells just might let them look back in time to find out.

A proposal for a natural gas power plant in Killingly, which has drawn the ire of environmental activists for six years, was dealt a major setback after the regional electric grid operator — ISO-New England — said it doesn’t want Killingly to be part of its future plans.

This hour on Where We Live: Electrifying everything, from our cars to our homes, is key to reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. But to do that, we need batteries. We take a look at the science behind how lithium ion batteries work and the environmental impacts of producing them.

A proposal to burn about 2,500 tons of old coal at a major Hartford trash plant is getting a strong rebuke from state regulators. But the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority said Wednesday that burning the coal in Hartford is “the most environmentally sound” way to get rid of it.

The state legislature last month failed to pass a program aimed at dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But reducing emissions is part of state…