by David Brooks | Sep 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Increasing carbon in the atmosphere should have a positive effect on some plant growth. A long-term study of Harvard Forest, a research forest in Massachusetts, has found one of them: The trees are storing more carbon than they used to. As reported here, that’s...
by David Brooks | Sep 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome has absolutely obliterated certain species of North American bats, as I’m sure you know. One hope has been that it would cause a winged-mammal version of population resistance, where removing all the competing bats...
by David Brooks | Sep 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Some trees in New Hampshire that have been certified as the biggest in their species are going to lose their title – not because they’re shrinking, but because a change has been made in how to measure trees with multiple trunks. Already dethroned is an Eastern white...
by David Brooks | Sep 3, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Aug. 30 to Sept. 6. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Multi-Radio Access Technology Paging Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No....
by David Brooks | Sep 3, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Plans to use $4.6 million from the VW “dieselgate” settlement to install DC fast chargers along 6 major routes in New Hampshire are on hold because there were no suitable bids to the state’s request for proposals last winter. The RFP is being reworked but...
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