by David Brooks | Apr 25, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
I made a quick little chart in Infogram of births and deaths each year in New Hampshire as recorded by the bureau of Vital Records. You can see why we need people to keep moving into the state. Interactive chart is here:...
by David Brooks | Apr 25, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
“I think it’s a really fair expectation that one of the most widely experienced impacts of global warming will be reductions in air quality from wildfire,” said Justin S. Mankin, an associate professor in Dartmouth’s Department of Geography. Interesting (i.e.,...
by David Brooks | Apr 23, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire had 11,761 births in 2024, the lowest number in modern times, as a bump in births after COVID has ended. The 2024 number of births is 330 smaller than the figure in 2023, 540 smaller than a decade ago and 2,400 births or 16% smaller than it was three...
by David Brooks | Apr 23, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
From UMass Amherst: In a residential backyard in Maine, Project ITCH researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst stumbled upon a surprise finding: rabbit ticks harboring a new type of bacteria related to a group of pathogens that can cause sometimes...
by David Brooks | Apr 23, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The nonprofit Northeast Resource Recovery Association has a very cool interactive map of where and how to compost in New Hampshire, including places with home pickup, farms that will take your food waste and town drop-off sites, usually at transfer...