Frank Carini

The solar project will generate enough power to offset about two-thirds of campus electricity use.

Let’s hope government officials don’t make the same mistake with offshore wind as they did with fossil fuels: failing to make sure end-of-life infrastructure is properly decommissioned.

These three panels indicate the degree of spatial overlap between whales and shipping traffic from 2017 to 2022. Panel A shows the average global distribution for blue, fin, humpback, and sperm whales. Yellow- and green-shaded areas indicate ocean areas with high space usage by these species. Panel B shows global shipping traffic patterns, with yellow- and green-shaded regions indicating high levels of shipping traffic. Panel C shows the relative levels of both whales and shipping globally. Yellow-shaded areas indicate high shipping traffic but low whale occurrence. Purple-shaded areas show the opposite. Burgundy-shaded regions indicate areas of high overlap between whales and ships. (Anna Nisi)

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The Coastal Resources Management Council last week postponed the Policies and Procedures Subcommittee’s hearing for the second month in a row.

The continued burning of fossil fuels is a far greater threat to the commercial fishing industry than wind turbines.

A Bristol hotel project has received state approval despite local concerns about the proposed development’s potential to exacerbate neighborhood flooding.

The depave movement, at least in some places, is gaining momentum, but not in Rhode Island, where we like to smother the natural world under widened highways, oversized homes, solar panels, and parking lots.

Tire wear particles are emitted continually as vehicles travel — some 600 million tons shed annually worldwide.