I have been shocked, while driving around the Island recently, to see scarred landscapes, large parcels that have been totally cleared of trees for one purpose or another. Reading that clear-cutting ...

So strong were Dartmouth’s ties to the trees that it got the nickname “The College of a Thousand Elms.” Then, one by one, the College had to cut them down. By the 1980s, more than 200 had been lost.

Mixed sleet and rain in Boston will be transitioning to all rain. Across Worcester County and northern Middlesex County, ...