Last summer, we grappled with a severe drought. This summer, it rained so much, businesses in Old Orchard Beach, Maine and New Hampshire’s White Mountains feared they might lose the whole tourist season. In Vermont, people spent much of the summer cleaning up from catastrophic floods that also affected farms in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The unpredictability and volatility is anything but normal for a New England summer…but with climate change, you might say we’re now beyond normal.
In this series from the New England News Collaborative, journalists across the region worked together to tell stories about how climate change is affecting what we know, love and rely on in New England summers.
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Aid will help with recovery, repair and conservation. -
More intense storms, rising sea levels, toxic algae blooms, and other environmental crises are making it harder for tribes to practice their culture and to pass it on. -
Poison ivy is poised to take full advantage of climate change. With warmer temperatures and rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, scientists say poison ivy grows faster, its leaves get bigger and its toxic oil becomes even more virulent. -
A new pilot program sends alerts to remind clinicians to talk to patients about protecting themselves on dangerously hot days, which are happening more frequently because of climate change. -
Cover cropping, high tunnels, and no-till planting are helping these farms thrive, even as rain and heat pose challenges. -
Several people along the East coast have contracted a rare “flesh-eating” bacterial infection that scientists say is exacerbated by climate change. -
Climate change is making New Hampshire wetter, and increasing the threat of flash flooding. -
Trees provide a wide range of benefits, from filtering out air pollution, to improving mental health, to cooling city neighborhoods on hot summer days. -
Several global weather patterns were factors in the amount of rain that hammered the region. -
Many farmers cannot replant fields until next growing season.
