by David Brooks | Jun 9, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
… bugs. Specifically, the wooly adelgid that’s damaging hemlock forests throughout the East. The reports came in around Jun 7 of last year from a series of beaches in southern Maine and N.H. (and one in Mass.) of black stuff at water’s edge staining...
by David Brooks | Jun 9, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
After years and years of declining birth rates, New Hampshire has surprised just about everybody by seeing the country’s biggest baby boom last year with a birth rate that rebounded 7% since pre-pandemic times, far more than any other state. Whether it will...
by David Brooks | Jun 7, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
A city looking for 100% clean electricity could hardly ask for anything better than three hydropower sites within its borders, so I’ve often wondered why Concord doesn’t make more of a splash, so to speak, with the three small dams in Penacook. Wonder no more. As of...
by David Brooks | Jun 4, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Phytoplankton are about 65% less productive in the Gulf of Maine than they were two decades ago because water temperature and salinity have risen as a warming planet alters ocean pattersn, scientists at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine,...
by David Brooks | Jun 3, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Pfizer is going to conduct the latest stage of tests of a Lyme vaccine in Maine. Long, long overdue. Short AP story is here.