A federal appeals court on Thursday restored a U.S. agency rule restricting lobster and Jonah crab fishing off the ...

The Waltham-based group MassResistance says it has drafted text for similar measures to be filed in other state legislatures, ...

A groundbreaking study by Rice University physicist Kaden Hazzard and former student Zhiyuan Wang has established the ...

Gov. Maura T. Healey signed the bill earlier this month, making Massachusetts the ninth state to honor Parks with an annual ...

The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered when random chance is at play. Or, ...

Our home planet is bombarded with particles from outer space all the time. And while we are mostly familiar with the rocky ...

Massachusetts was one of 15 Democratic state government trifectas at the start of 2025 legislative sessions. A state government trifecta occurs when one political party holds the governor's office, a ...

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Environmental groups concerned about loss of protections for vanishing animals see one of President Donald Trump’s early ...

Under state law, it takes a two-thirds vote by the legislature to greenlight transfers or land use changes to open space ...

Over 400 endangered sea turtles have washed ashore on India's east coast in the last two weeks in an event not witnessed in ...