My column in the Monitor today is the latest round of self-examination in which I face the unpleasant fact that a central tenant of my environmental attitude - "think globally, act locally" - has not only proven insufficient to tackle global problems like climate...

In 1999 at the iconic New Hampshire gaming arcade known as Funspot, a guy named Billy Mitchell achieved the first-ever perfect score on an arcade version of Pac-Man - 3,333,270 points over about six hours. Since then, his claim and other of his arcade records have...

I first used the words "climate change" in a story in the late 1990s and it has been a regular part of my reporting since. How could it not? It's a great story, and journalists love great stories. And it has only become a better* story over time, as the effects have...

The Ig Nobel Prizes are, as you probably know, one of the cultural highlights of Western Civilization. Held at Harvard University in the stately, majestic, awesome (choose your adjective) Sanders Theater, the ceremony mixes the goofy and the intellectual in a spoof of...

I am of two minds about AirBNB. Like many of these so-called "sharing economy" startups it is great for customers - travelers, in this case - but can have drawbacks for the communities and workers who make it possible. In tourist-heavy areas, AirBNB can drive out...

This year is proving to be a good one in New Hampshire, if a slightly puzzling one, for the most iconic of all butterfly species – and sorry, Karner blue, but we mean the monarch butterfly. “It’s been a fantastic year for monarchs. People keep bringing containers of...