Boston Green Action members frequently author articles on a range of issues pertaining to climate action. We proudly present some of our notable perspectives, along with research findings that we champion.
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.
In a study published in March, 2025 in Science of The Total Environment, researchers from the University of North Carolina’s Institute for the Environment report on the impacts of onroad vehicular emissions within the Boston metropolitan area. The dramatic results point to “substantial variation in health damages per ton of emissions…observed across precursor pollutants, source regions, and vehicle classes, underscoring the need for targeted emission reduction strategies.
A new study published in eBioMedicine (April 28, 2025) draws an alarming connection between plastic polymers and chemical additives and “increased oxidative stress, metabolic dysfunction, and cardiovascular disease…”—and death. The study authors, Sara Hyman, Jonathan Acevedo, Chiara Giannarelli, and Leonard Trasande (New York University Grossman School of Medicine), have found that “plastics pose a significant risk to increased cardiovascular mortality, disproportionately impacting regions which have developing plastic production sectors.
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.
