Air particles are getting into homes, schools and workplaces along highways in the region, new research shows. But there are ways to limit that exposure.

Transportation-related air pollution may be worse than previously understood in some Boston neighborhoods, new research shows, leaving some of society’s most vulnerable at greater risk for heart attack and stroke.

As The Eye has reported, state environmental budget cuts have hit water-quality monitoring especially hard, with testing for bacteria in lakes and rivers…

Click here to read this story backed up by primary documents. GRAFTON, Mass. — In early 2012, residents of this sleepy town began to notice an unusual…

It's a central question as sea levels rise, storms become more intense, and coastal property damage skyrockets: Why do people keep rebuilding along the…

A vacation home damaged at least 10 times by Atlantic storms will be elevated with money from a federal grant for the second time in a dozen years – this…

Despite the terrible derailment of an Amtrak train last week and a spate of other fiery accidents involving trains carrying flammable crude oil — five so…

In areas of North Carolina and New Jersey, where the current rate of beach erosion can be four times the historical average, property values could drop 17 percent for towns with high property values and as much as 34 percent for towns with low property values if federal sand subsidies disappear, according to new research.

Scituate is the front line in New England’s expensive, losing battle against the sea. With few offshore barriers to curb a storm’s fury, the coastal town accounts for nearly 40 percent of Massachusetts’ homes and businesses that are so flood-prone the federal government calls them “severe repetitive loss” properties. Now a growing movement is underway to level the homes that cost taxpayers the most to keep dry. The state Legislature in July set aside $20 million in a bond bill to begin a voluntary buyback for repeatedly damaged coastal homes and convert the land to recreational areas or wildlife refuges. Coastal legislators are urging new Governor Charlie Baker to tap into the fund in the wake of January’s blizzard.

Homeowners in flood zones are likely to find it easier to afford rising insurance rates with a new law recently signed by Governor Deval Patrick.