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Vivien Li, then president of The Boston Harbor Association, speaks outside the Boston Public Library in Copley Square at the beginning of the "performative walk" called "Boston Coastline: Future Past" that Andi Sutton and Catherine D'Ignazio led on June 19, 2015. (Greg Cook)

Art Greg CookJanuary 15, 2018 0

At MIT, Artists Look At How Global Warming Will Put A Lot Of Boston Under Water

By the end of this century, how will global warming and rising seas have changed Boston? A lot more of it is expected to be under water—much as it was…Continue Reading →

Polar bear at Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Dec. 29, 2017. (Greg Cook)

Nature Greg CookJanuary 7, 2018 0

Polar Bear Playing In Snowstorm

Photos of a polar bear playing in a snowstorm at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, Dec. 29, 2017. (Copyright Greg Cook)Continue Reading →

Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood's "Encrustations," 2012, with found objects and real marine specimens artificially weathered, "a marvel of 'fantastical archaeology' and trompe l'oeil sculpture." (Greg Cook)

Art Greg CookDecember 30, 2017 0

Seeing ‘Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist’ With The 4-Year-Old

The 4-year-old and I are on the MBTA’s Silver Line heading to see the exhibition “Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist” at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art (through Dec.…Continue Reading →

Blanding’s turtle. (Courtesy Zoo New England)

Nature Greg CookNovember 18, 2017 0

Conservation Group Working To Save Turtles Merges With Local Zoos

Grassroots Wildlife Conservation—a Concord, Massachusetts, nonprofit devoted to ecological education and on-the-ground protection of rare New England species—will merge with Zoo New England, the Boston institution that operates the Franklin…Continue Reading →

Bogin-Olson family garden on Marble Road, Gloucester. (Greg Cook)

Nature Greg CookJuly 26, 2017 0

Backyard Growers’ Urban Garden Tour

Photos from Backyard Growers’ “Incredible Edible Downtown Garden Tour,” the community gardening group’s “first-ever, self-guided urban garden tour,” in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on July 15, 2017. Including the Bogin-Olson family garden on…Continue Reading →

"Tiny Great Outdoors Festival" featured in May/June 2017 Scout Somerville. (Adrianne Mathiowetz/Greg Cook)

Wonderland Spectacle Co. Greg CookMay 17, 2017 0

‘Tiny Great Outdoors Festival’ in Scout Somerville

“Tiny Great Outdoors Festival” featured in May/June 2017 Scout Somerville.Continue Reading →

Art Greg CookApril 29, 2017 0

Grave for a Bluejay

Planting a tree during the 2017 "Tiny Great Outdoors Festival." (Greg Cook)

Wonderland Spectacle Co. Greg CookApril 23, 2017 0

The Tiny Great Outdoors Festival

The Tiny Great Outdoors Festival was a free Arbor Day and SustainaVille event held at the Somerville’s tiniest “urban wild,” Quincy Street Open Space, 16 Quincy St., from noon to…Continue Reading →

Nature Greg CookApril 16, 2017 0

Butterfly Garden at Boston’s Museum of Science

Butterfly Garden at Boston’s Museum of Science, March 11, 2017. (Photos copyright Greg Cook)Continue Reading →

Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, March 26, 2017. (Greg Cook)

Nature Greg CookApril 16, 2017 0

Great Mammal Hall at Harvard Museum of Natural History

The Great Mammal Hall at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Mass., March 26, 2017. (Photos copyright Greg Cook.)Continue Reading →