The Tobin Bridge spans the Inner Harbor, its northern anchorage and Route 1 bisects Chelsea. Midground Right: One of the salt heaps. TEXT BY SUREN MOODLIAR PHOTOS BY DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN (UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED) The centuries-long relationship with … [Read more...]
A CLIMATE FIGHT FOR THE AGES
Photo via Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station After four years of struggle, Weymouth activists continue to challenge the fossil fuel industrial complex On a small and unassuming plot of land sandwiched between Weymouth and … [Read more...]
A SPECIAL CLIMATE CRISIS ISSUE
This week, BINJ teamed up with DigBoston locally to join fellow news outlets around the globe in publishing a special issue on the climate crisis now threatening human civilization—and perhaps the entire biosphere, including our … [Read more...]
THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT TO COME
How can we build the majoritarian social force we need to slow global warming? The climate movement we have is not the climate movement we need. It’s not that there hasn’t been a lot of very fine work done by a great many activists … [Read more...]
THE NEW POLLUTANTS
A growing body of research suggests that, in and around traffic, what you can’t see may be killing you Every rush hour, thousands of cars belch out an invisible fog. Whenever a piston fires, a tire spins, or a car brakes, tiny flecks … [Read more...]