Closures of Coal Plants Escalating
By Doug Struck, Globe Correspondent Reports from the end of an era keep coming. This year alone, the Tennessee Valley
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Support grows for bottled water sale ban
By Doug Struck Globe Correspondent The growing support shown in Concord this week for its ban on the sale of bottled
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The Real Reason We’re Hovering Parents
Child-rearing guides are clucking about "snowplow parents." The Boston Globe chronicled the phenomenon of moms and dads still hovering over their children, "leaving their college-age kids anxious, depressed, and ill-equipped to deal with matters both small and large."
But they've got it wrong.
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A Sea Change: Oceans Cover Story
“Nobody really paid attention to what was happening to that great resource and the damage that was occurring,” says Leon Panetta. “I think we changed the conversation.”
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Mercury levels drop in some US women
By Doug Struck Globe Correspondent The first documented victim was a little girl, just shy of six. Bright and active, she
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Solar power at a turning point in Ma.?
By Doug Struck Globe Correspondent The prospect of solar power here poses a question for armchair psychologists: on a very long
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