ENVIRONMENT

Today on The Rundown, ists discuss the possible consequences and solutions to massive bee colony collapse, plans to repurpose the vacant Berkshire Mall for senior housing, the latest in a controversial biomass plant development in Springfield and much more.

Today we host a roundtable discussion with four local organizations who are facing real-life material consequences from widespread federal funding cuts.

Today on The Rundown, Carrie Saldo and ists discuss ICE presence in western Mass., how federal funding cuts could impact the local arts and culture economy, how municipalities prepare for future climate disasters and much more.

We check out roosting falcons atop the W. E. B. Du Bois library at UMass Amherst and check in with Amherst College's The Common as it celebrates 25 years of publication.

We speak with some of the organizers and creatives behind the Easthampton Film Festival and find out about urban farming with Nordica Community Farm.

We learn about this weekend's Poetry Carnival at Bombyx with Brother's Keeper Poetry Ensemble and learn about migrating birds with UMass professor Nathan Senner.

Cars and climate change have made life harder for key species that provide nutrients for creatures all around New England and sequester carbon in soil.

Springfield's housing department had already signed a contract with the EPA when Trump took office and appeared to cancel the grant.

It's Earth Day so we check in with folx with environmentally forward missions. We learn about light pollution, waterway ecosystems and agricultural transportation and distribution.

Researchers say they're seeing more of these colorful blobs growing on docks, but they're not the only invasive marine species that could be spreading along New England coasts. And climate change may be partly to blame.