The famous islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts are facing serious impacts from rising sea levels and more powerful coastal storms driven by climate change, a new environmental report released Wednesday warns.
Boston Harbor is nationally renowned as a maritime resource with a long and distinct history of social and economic uses but building the next generation’s waterfront requires a reinvention of one of our greatest assets – the working port.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh wants to bring active recreation to the Fort Point Channel and build new “large open spaces” on both sides of the waterway that runs between downtown Boston and the Seaport District.
