UMass Boston Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco’s March article in Research Magazine is a call for new ways of navigating the climate crisis and protecting people and ecosystems. His is an urgent call for MAST—Mitigation, Adaptation, and Social Transformation.

A May 8th study published in the British journal Nature Cities charts the threat of sea level rise in major US cities. Boston is among the urban areas most susceptible to an “invisible threat, land subsidence.” According to the study authors, “Land subsidence is a slow-moving hazard with adverse environmental and socioeconomic consequences worldwide.

The Center for Climate Integrity has issued a scathing report on the disinformation promoted by Big Oil and the plastic industry. In fact, industy claims about “advanced recycling” are “undermined by their own words and experts.

“’The Fraud of Advanced Recycling’ shows how, in response to growing public and governmental pressure, Big Oil and the plastics industry are now deceptively marketing “advanced” recycling to the public, even as chemical engineering experts, industry consultants, trade associations, and plastics producers themselves quietly acknowledge its many flaws.

The new type of ion exchange filter enables water to pass through a fine, sand-like material that chemically attracts and filters out contaminants.

A recent study published in Science Advances (January 31, 2025) concludes that “cities experiencing greater temperature increases over time saw larger increases in rats. Cities with more dense human populations and more urbanization also saw larger increases in rats.