MIDDLETOWN, R.I. — If current development trends persist, 100 percent of the unprotected farmland, woods, and other open space on Aquidneck Island will be developed by 2050, according to a recent analysis.

COVENTRY, R.I. — A Rhode Island Superior Court judge recently validated the town’s denial of a ground-mounted solar-energy project off Route 117 and Carr’s Trail.

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — The transaction had been in the works for more than a year, but the South Kingstown Land Trust recently made the purchase official. It’s now the owner of 43 acres of woodlands on the south side of Worden’s Pond Road that once belonged to the Rhode Island Boy Scouts.

PROVIDENCE — Progress is being made on building solar arrays in places that don't require clear-cutting trees.

PROVIDENCE — The Steel Yard continues to innovate. But instead of working with metals, molding ceramics, or making jewelry, the medium for the yard’s latest project is renewable energy.

The Vineyard Wind project is a major test of the offshore wind industry.

PROVIDENCE — The city’s forthcoming Climate Justice Plan frames the intensifying climate crisis around those most at risk of suffering the consequences: the poor and people of color.

PROVIDENCE — Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. was one of the few adults to speak during last month’s Global Climate Strike. Now that those events are over, he says the moment is at hand for those young activists.

PROVIDENCE — There was no bashing of fossil-fuel companies, no mention of the Green New Deal, and no talk about the dark money influencing politicians and public skepticism.

A tiny, winged invader is making its way up the Mid-Atlantic Coast. Rhode Island is holding out, but only just so.

Just hearing the name of one of Rhode Island’s newest invasive species is enough to make local residents queasy: snake worms.

Spring salamanders are one of the giants of the salamander world, at least in the Northeast. They can grow to more than 8 inches in length. But they are also quite rare in southern New England.

A Rhode Island scientist is co-leading a collaborative effort to determine if New England’s only hard coral species could provide a solution to the coral bleaching problem in the tropics.

PROVIDENCE — Bruce H. Corliss, dean of the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, was recently presented a service award from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse.

With federal funding and state assistance, The Nature Conservancy’s fish surveys of upper Narragansett Bay began in 2015.