Climate Change

Beavers are known as a "keystone species," contributing to biodiversity wherever they set up their habitats. Today, Connecticut author and journalist Leila Philip joins us to talk about her book "Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America."

The wind project, located off the coast of Connecticut and Rhode Island, will eventually generate enough electricity to power 350,000 homes.

In 1975, Mystic Aquarium launched its Animal Rescue Program, where experts work to rehabilitate marine animals. The aquarium even operates a 24-hour hotline, where people can send in reports of marine life in need.

How do we begin to understand the full economic, human, and environmental impacts of war? This hour we talk with someone who is doing that math.

The project, off the coast of Connecticut and Rhode Island, will ultimately generate up to 704 megawatts of electricity — the equivalent of powering 350,000 homes.

Connecticut's Department of Agriculture provides an update on how this winter season has impacted local agriculture and farms.

Researchers from Mystic Aquarium are heading to the icy tundras of Canada to study beluga breath. That’s the white-plume mixture of water cells, proteins and lung fluid that whales exhale when they come up to the surface.

This hour writer Robert Macfarlane joins us to talk about his latest book, "Is a River Alive?"

Without the finding, the federal government isn’t required to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles, putting Connecticut at risk of more air pollution, warming waters and extreme weather.

The rescission could derail the state’s plan to bring more EV chargers into urban and rural communities where they're already hard to find.