Joanna Detz

ecoRI News reporters Frank Carini and Colleen Cronin take a stab at pronouncing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances as they discuss their latest reporting on how stricter EPA standards for PFAS, cancer-causing forever chemicals, are throwing some public drinking water supplies out of compliance.

Join authors Afua Ansong, Eli Nixon, and Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie online for a conversation moderated by What Cheer Writers Club Advisory Committee members Frank Maradiaga and Cherie Rowe on the intersections between writing, art, and activism. How do contemporary authors advocate for social justic…

A few days before Christmas last year, Bill Eccleston and Rich Dionne went snowshoeing, starting out from the Pulaski State Park and Recreational Area in Glocester.

Clint Richmond has been keeping a concerned eye on a group of manufactured chemicals linked to cancer that coat food packaging, fabrics, and waterproof clothing. He and others are alarmed at the extent to which these chemicals have seeped into drinking water supplies in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

As the Transportation & Climate Initiative and Rhode Island’s related Transportation Emissions and Mobile Community Act gear up for another season of legislative debate, cross-state advocates are pushing to make sure the program’s equity provisions don’t end up as false promises.

The corner lot at the Intersection of Smith Street and Chalkstone and Camden avenues is essentially a drive-thru dump.

Taxidermied birds and bull moose heads. Glittering geodes and jarred animal fetuses. Dried butterflies in glass cases and live axolotls in glass cages.

I found it deeply disturbing to hear the deep-throated roar of the plane as it swooped low over my house to dump it’s cargo of “helpful” toxins over my woods. Supposedly, the state is trying to control the spread of eastern equine encephalitis — of which only a few cases are reported in the United States annually.

This year’s tick season has brought an unwelcome development beyond the usual concerns about the disease-bearing arachnids with the confirmation of what one scientist said is a new invasive species in the Northeast.

A 1.8-mile section of Allens Avenue, from Point Street to New York Avenue, is arguably the most unpleasant stretch of road in Rhode Island.

As wind power spins forward in the United States — the five-turbine Block Island Wind Farm is the first offshore wind-energy facility in the country — the giant turbine blades that generate energy are often blamed for the death of birds and bats.

Margaret Lewis had an old, drafty window in the attic of her Sheldon Street home. The window was rotted around the edges and the wall and floor under the window were water damaged.

Broken promises and financial interests are polluting Cape Cod Bay. For nearly two decades, federal and state authorities have allowed the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station to operate with an expired Clean Water Act permit.

Red Brook is one of the few streams in southeastern Massachusetts that still sustains a healthy brook trout fishery. Actually, that statement is technically incorrect, according to the man who said as much.