August 2022 Environmental and Sustainability News

Photo by Paul Einerhand

Here’s the best of what we’ve read recently.

“Climate change will likely bring more hot weather and heat deaths to the Greater Boston area over the coming decades, as well as wrecked septic systems, more rain, fewer lobsters and cranberries, threats to drinking water, and more flooding on Morrissey Boulevard.”
— Heat, sewer problems and less lobster: New report details climate change's impact in Boston (WBUR)

“The Environmental Protection Agency warned Wednesday that a group of human-made chemicals found in the drinking water, cosmetics and food packaging used by millions of Americans poses a greater danger to human health than regulators previously thought.”
— EPA warns toxic ‘forever chemicals’ more dangerous than once thought (The Washington Post)

“Nonhuman creatures have senses that we’re just beginning to fathom. What would they tell us if we could only understand them?”
— The Strange and Secret Ways That Animals Perceive the World (The New Yorker)

“Owned by a billionaire Dutch family, Blue Harvest Fisheries has emerged as a dominant force in the lucrative fishing port of New Bedford. Its business model: benefit from lax antitrust rules and pass costs on to local fishermen.”
— INVESTIGATION: How foreign private equity hooked New England’s fishing industry (The New Bedford Light)