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Ideas

An ecological disaster that’s within our grasp to reverse

Shorebirds that migrate through the Northeast are in serious decline. It’s not too late to save them.

OpEds

Carbon capture isn’t the climate change health benefit the world needs

Fossil fuels are yesterday’s game. Capturing their emissions is not good enough if you’re only capturing the carbon and still releasing other pollutants that harm health.

Letters

In a climate crisis, public impact of private jets is too great

The Massachusetts Port Authority needs to say no to new hangar space for private jets at Hanscom Field. We are in a climate emergency, and every policy decision has an impact.

OpEds

How states can curb EV charging rates

They should follow the lead of Massachusetts and New York.

Ideas

Got weeds? Read this before you whack them.

I was once a slayer of undesirables in my backyard, but now I understand the ecological benefits of non-native plant species.

Letters

Boston climate activists are flat wrong in deflating tires

While gas-guzzlers are part of the problem, the deflators are just lazy in targeting a few people here and there rather than doing the incredibly hard work of supporting political movements that will affect policy on fossil fuel use.

Columns

The Beacon Hill tire deflators are cowardly vandals

Vandalism is no way to win hearts and minds, particularly when the message behind it is delivered anonymously by people unwilling to put a name or face to their cause.

OpEds

The car fire that helped save the planet

As we spend more time on our feet (and hands and knees) than we do in our car, we remember our pets’ ashes lie in this place alongside their old tennis balls. We pass by the hollow of a late-lamented fairy fort built by a 4-year-old, and the pot that grew our tomatoes.