Science & climate

• If 100 companies are responsible for 70% of emissions, what can you do?

• A hidden source of emissions while we’ve been stuck inside: your home cooking

• Plastic credits are the newest kind of pollution offset—but do they make a difference?

• How far does plastic float when it gets tossed in the ocean?

• Preventing future pandemics would cost just 5% of the cost they inflict

• 2021 cancelled out nearly all the emissions reductions of 2020

• Scientists can now track animals using only air

• These fridge-free, no-needle vaccines could be ready for the next pandemic

• The pandemic killed business travel. For the sake of the climate, it should stay dead

• How to talk to kids about climate change

• Extreme heat is turning prisons into ovens

• How these New Orleans nuns helped turn their convent into a beautiful, flood-preventing urban wetland

  Business & labor

• How do workers take on a national chain like Starbucks? One store at a time

• New Belgium at 30: How the iconic brewery has evolved, from employee ownership to acquisition

• How the Drivers Cooperative built a worker-owned alternative to Uber and Lyft

• How activist hedge funds went from corporate raiders to climate heroes

  Policy & philanthropy

• Giving people a one-time economic boost changes their lives for at least a decade

• This foundation let youth organizers decide where to give its money

• Does defunding the police sound radical? Some cities have already taken the first steps

• Terpenes are next frontier of curated cannabis experience, experts say

• MIT engineers create sensor that shows when a plant needs water

• Uptown and Downtown rats in NYC are genetically different, study finds

• Native Americans voice past and current struggles on National Day of Mourning

• Bicycle summons are up from 2016: NYPD

• Why do we like being scared? There's a psychological reason why fear is fun

• New York outraged over startup that wants to replace bodegas

• First Muslim-operated homeless shelter for women opens in Dorchester

• Every Boston public school to get youth homelessness liaison

• As legal weed gains traction, doctors stay informed through new cannabis curriculum

• The story of the Christmas Tree Nova Scotia sends to Boston every year

• Kids who breathed in 9/11 dust now show signs of heart disease risk: Study

• Swearing can improve your physical performance, study finds

• Q&A: Therapist talks hardships of 2017 and how to manage expectations for the new year

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• A play about the Boston Marathon bombings tells survivors' stories with their exact words

• Would a recreation of the Tsarnaev shootout traumatize residents who lived through it?

• There’s a whole world of maple syrup beyond this small-town Massachusetts sugarer

• The future of the world’s whales could depend on a drone called ‘SnotBot’

• Inside the new shelter that's changing how the Boston area helps homeless young adults

• At the b.good farm in the Boston Harbor, at-risk kids learn about growing food (and a business)

• The Perkins School got a $750,000 Google grant to change how blind people take the bus

• A Boston pizza place is trying something unusual. Here’s how it can change employees’ lives

• Is parking in Boston too cheap? This man thinks so

• ‘Like a madman’: Inside the dash-cam cop’s personnel file

• When you're HIV-positive in Boston there's stigma — and support

• Boston's homeless rely on each other to survive record winter

• From Boston to the world: Our Bodies, Ourselves still sparks change

Freelance

• Does going zero waste mean buying more stuff? The Goods by Vox

• Why miscarriages should be in all sex ed lesson plans Teen Vogue

• ‘I Was Diagnosed With Breast Cancer At 27—And Planned Parenthood Saved My Life’ I spoke with Jaime Benner, a breast cancer survivor who found care through Planned Parenthood and went on to found Planned Parenthood's Cancer Survivor's Network for an as-told-to for Women's Health.

• 'I Was Diagnosed With Autism As An Adult—Here's What It's Like' I spoke with a woman who was diagnosed with autism as an adult and how women aren't diagnosed as often for an as-told-to feature during Autism Awareness Month for Women's Health