Barbara Moran

Team Common is still working on relaunching The Common as a longer weekly show. And we thank you so much for your patience. In the meantime, we want to share with you a project by WBUR's own Barbara Moran and Science Quickly , a podcast from Scientific American.

Resume Team Common is still working on relaunching The Common as a longer weekly show. And we thank you so much for your patience.

The western Massachusetts town of Montague will receive nearly $10 million in state and federal funding to convert an abandoned mill into a riverfront park.

But what if there was a way to clean up the Cape's waters without spending hundreds of millions of dollars? Some of you may have heard of it before on The Common …it's called urine diversion, or “pee-cycling.”

Michael Piantedosi pulled his car onto the shoulder of a two-lane highway, and parked next to a patch of woods that looked utterly ordinary — another forest like so many others lining the roads of rural New England.

We visit a secret forest outside of Boston that's home to a rare orchid WBUR's reports. This segment airs on July 31, 2024.

Boston had 19 days of high-tide flooding last year and can expect 12 to 19 days next year — more than any other city in the Northeast.

The upcoming presidential election could have profound effects on America’s climate and environmental policies that will trickle down to New England. It all depends on who takes office.

Many Boston residents encountered an unwelcome sight this week: swarms of flying ants. The bugs splattered cars, flew up noses, and, in one reported case , fell into a man's frappe outside J.P. Licks.

Improvements to Boston's three major rivers are slowing or stalled, and climate change is a major culprit. The assessment, from the U.S.