The latest round of proposals for Charlestown's long-abandoned Pier 5 includes two contenders that both abut the pier: Charlestown Marina and Courageous Sailing. The city will post the proposals later today. #Boston #Charlestown #park #harbor #environmentaljustice @Universal Hub

Sea-level rise: a new method to estimate the probability of different outcomes – including a worst case (A slightly technical but clear update for non-scientists on predictions for sea-level rise)

The Conversation

Sea-level rise: a new method to estimate the probability of different outcomes – including a worst case

Planners need more reliable projections of future sea-level rise to protect communities and ecosystems. A new method helps produce them.

"No matter how quickly we reduce our carbon emissions, our past emissions commit us to ongoing sea-level rise... Decision-makers face a major obstacle: the specific rate and magnitude of future sea-level rise is deeply uncertain." #sealevelrise #climatechange #climatecrisis

This morning in East Boston, the tower at Belle Isle Marsh Reservation and the hill at Condor Street Urban Wild.

The One That Got Away: This Small Town Is Left in Limbo After Betting Big on GMO Salmon "Even with so much public assistance, the project fell apart, and the village that hoped for a transformative industry is carrying the cost."

ProPublica

The One That Got Away: This Small Town Is Left in Limbo After Betting Big on GMO Salmon

AquaBounty GMO salmon was going to be the future of fish — and the future for one Ohio village that offered incentives to make a new facility hap...

(The saga of genetically modified salmon continues... I wrote about AquaBounty 8 years ago:

Ensia

Transgenic fish are ready for us. Are we ready for them?

Ensia is a solutions-focused nonprofit media outlet reporting on our changing planet. Published by the Institute on the Environment.

) #fish

Why children's books? "Those who write for children have the chance to point them towards beauty that they do not yet know exists: towards versions of joy that they have not yet imagined possible." (Best essay I've read in months, by Katherine Rundell in the London Review of Books, I think no paywall)

London Review of Books

Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books?

Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...

#literature #books

We're in our 'global weirding' era

We're in our 'global weirding' era

Climate change can be confusing, writes Courtney Humphries, an assistant professor of environmental studies. Yes, we’ll continue to have big snow...

"We’ll continue to have big snows. They will break records. But what we’re losing is predictability. That’s why climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe has coined the term 'global weirding' to capture what climate change does to the world." --Courtney Humphries @npub1gpsq...07he #Boston #climatechange #climatecrisis

#silentsunday

Registration is now open for the Run of the Charles, Boston's premier paddling race, to be held on Sunday April 27

Charles River Watershed Association

RUN OF THE CHARLES — Charles River Watershed Association

CRWA presents the 41st Run of the Charles, Boston’s premier paddling race!

"The Run of the Charles features 3-, 6-, 9- and 14-mile races within the basin of the Charles River... CRWA believes in celebrating recreation on the Charles River and bringing communities together to support the protection, health, and resiliency of Boston's greatest natural treasure." #Boston #Cambridge #Waltham #Newton #river #environment #paddling

Community groups push for economic equity as state reimagines industrial waterfront (Planning for tough challenges in Boston inner harbor's Designated Port Areas.)

GBH

Community groups push for economic equity as state reimagines industrial waterfront

The report released Wednesday highlights a number of challenges facing Boston’s Designated Port Area, including coastal flooding, pressure to dev...

“Do we want to see a waterfront that provides economic opportunity for all people?... Do we want to see a waterfront that’s accessible for everybody and that is protected from the worst of the near-term flooding that we’re going to have?” #Boston #climatechange #environmentaljustice #maritime #shipping

Sunk costs: a mega-airport in the path of climate disaster "Flights from one of the world’s largest airport projects may be grounded within 30 years due to the risk of sinking land and rising sea levels, Global Witness finds."

Global Witness

Sunk costs: A mega airport in the path of climate disaster

Flights from one of the world’s largest airport projects may be grounded within 30 years due to the risk of sinking land and rising sea levels

#climatechange #climatecrisis #sealevelrise #environment #environmentaljustice