@RLubb

Videographer/photographer at WBUR, Boston's NPR News Station. Over 30 years in journalism, photos, radio, tv, multimedia.

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New data show a 38% decrease in opioid overdose deaths in Boston in 2024 compared to 2023 - State House News: wbur.org/news/2025/06/02/bos…

Boston overdose deaths lowest in 10 years, data show

New data show a 38% decrease in opioid overdose deaths in Boston in 2024 compared to 2023 — the lowest number since 2015.

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Cloudbelly returns with intimate songs and a maximalist sound

Lead singer Corey Laitman reckons with the demise of past relationships on the Western Massachusetts band's new album, "i know i know i know."

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As @EversourceMA prepares to launch the country's first utility-led networked geothermal project, many hope it can provide a business model and road map for other utilities to wean themselves off of fossil fuels in the future. wbur.org/news/2024/03/08/net…

A project in Mass. tests a future for gas utilities without fossil fuels

Eversource is building the country's first gas utility-led networked geothermal system in Framingham. Environmentalists hope it can be a model for other gas utilities to wean themselves off of fossil...

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A vehicle driving along Long Wharf earlier today:
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Forest fires raging in central Chile have killed more than 100 people

The fires have been burning with the highest intensity around the city of Viña del Mar, where a famous botanical garden founded in 1931 was destroyed by the flames on Sunday.

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Great story from @MoranWriter about a quarter-acre food forest park in a formerly vacant Mattapan lot now filled with fruit trees and berry bushes: wbur.org/news/2023/05/25/edg… #environment

A 'food forest' in Mattapan is a space to harvest food and grow community

The Edgewater Food Forest in Mattapan is a formerly vacant lot now filled with fruit trees and berry bushes. Anyone in the community can harvest food for free.

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Here's a photo from the start of yesterday's 127th #BostonMarathon - light rain, but a lot of energy! More photos here: wbur.fm/43FpFTF
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Boston 5K today. Pictures from that and this morning's remembrance events here: wbur.fm/3GKCNNs
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In case you missed the solar powered chainsaw cutting up a giant credit card this week. Here's why that happened: wbur.fm/3FCnyFF
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Today @Fridays4Future protesters marched through downtown Boston demanding a halt to all investment in fossil fuels.
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Terrific reporting from @gabrieman and haunting images from @RLubb trace the path of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ inside the body wbur.fm/3k76FLN via @WBUR

Tracing the path of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ inside the body

PFAS have been linked to a long and growing list of health concerns. Scientists are beginning to better understand how these chemicals affect so many different organs and systems in the body.

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The Saugus waste incinerator's ash landfill on Rumney Marsh will soon reach capacity. The town has to decide what it will do then: wbur.fm/3IEgOYL
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Sad to say goodbye to the @Echofon app. They recognized the importance of lists long before other apps…
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Protesters marching down Tremont Street in Boston this evening.
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Scallops dying off in Long Island are "a cautionary tale" for New England: wbur.fm/3J9AAxk
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A passive house only cost 10% more to build, says passive house builder: wbur.fm/3XCjs7E

This Maine home can stay 70 degrees without a furnace, even when it's freezing outside

What's known as the passive house concept came to the United States in 2006, and is being used to construct buildings throughout the U.S. In Maine, there are over 100 of them, and that number is...

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Report says we need to boost density, invest in mass transit, improve lithium recycling and regulate EV battery size to reduce the lithium needed to decarbonize transit: bostonglobe.com/2023/01/25/s…

EV reliance is sparking a dangerous mining boom. There’s another way to cut emissions, study says....

Instead of simply swapping traditional cars for EVs, the report released Tuesday from the Climate and Community Project offers another way to tackle the climate crisis: reducing dependency on cars in...

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The country's first large offshore wind farm, Vineyard Wind 1, is on track to begin producing electricity by the end of this year. We went to the Cape this week to check out the project's progress. (Spoiler alert: great photos by @RLubb in this story) wbur.org/news/2023/01/19/vin…

Checking in on Vineyard Wind, country's first large offshore wind project in Mass.

WBUR visited Barnstable to see where the project stands and learn what work remains.

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Extinction Rebellion protesters at the site of the East Boston substation at 7 this morning.
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Car parked behind the Chart House, 15 mins before high tide.
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