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19th-century Bostonians realized that deforestation was changing the climate and pushed reforestation efforts visible today in parks like Middlesex Fells and the Blue Hills Reservation.

Scientists are working to understand the new tree disease that's spreading, which is caused by a microscopic worm.

Beech leaf disease was first identified in a few Massachusetts communities in 2020. It has since spread to over 90 communities. Because it's relatively new, researchers are trying different approaches to find a way to save the trees

STONEHAM - On two recent rainy September evenings, members of Zoo New England’s (ZNE) Field Conservation Team went deep into the Middlesex Fells to search for migrating marbled salamanders. The

Neighbors form weeding groups to keep invasive plants, once desirable and sold in catalogs, from destroying the area's biodiversity.

Community-based environmental science, also called citizen science, relies on public input through volunteer action, to collect data in order to enact change in environmental aspects, including …