Massachusetts ecologists build a winter ‘hotel’ for snakes
The success of the rocky structure will be measured once temperatures drop.

Growing up on Choctaw land, and not being able to go back, inspired this chamber music album
Charles Shadle’s new album Choctaw Places pays tribute to the Choctaw Nation’s reservation within Oklahoma.
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MFA to close Benin Kingdom Gallery
The pieces on display, acquired by a donation from Robert Owen Lehman, will be returned to him. -
Cape Cod lobsterman turned NOAA gear expert caught in federal layoffs
After Rob Martin learned his lobster gear had entangled a humpback whale, he made it his mission to prevent others from repeating that experience. -
Harvard sues Trump administration to stop the freeze of more than $2 billion in grants
The Trump administration recently called for broad reforms at Harvard. After the university refused, the government froze billions of dollars in federal funding. -
Survivors of clergy sex abuse say Pope Francis' response to crisis was insufficient
"I think probably he himself would say his approach was insufficient," said the Dean of the BC school of theology. -
At 2025 Boston Marathon, athletes from around the world meet their moment
Kenya’s Sharon Lokedi set a new course record in the professional women’s race with time of 2:17:22.
GBH News podcasts
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Scratch & Win
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College Uncovered
GBH News in collaboration with The Hechinger Report, goes behind the scenes to show you how higher education really works. -
What Is Owed?
Boston has begun to wrestle with the notion of paying reparations to Black people to make up for 400 years of enslavement and economic exclusion. -
The Big Dig
This Peabody Award–winning podcast dives into the cynicism that hangs over the topic of American infrastructure. No project embodies that cynicism quite like ‘The Big Dig.’

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