Global Warming in Our Backyard
Beth Daley
Environmental reporter for The Boston Globe
March 25, 2007 - 7:00pm
Gloucester City Hall
Records show that New England’s climate, the catalyst behind fiery orange foliage and deep-woods Nordic ski treks, is dramatically warming — and altering the region’s character and economy as it does. What will we face in the coming years as a result of this warming, what is the science behind it, and what can we do to reverse the trend?
Beth Daley covers the environment for The Boston Globe, focusing on marine issues, global warming, forestry and environmental policy. She has also been the paper’s education reporter, and after 9/11 covered Ground Zero, the anthrax cases and the war in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In 2005, she shared the prestigious Ocean Science Journalism Award for the series “Sea Change: The New England Fishing Crisis.”