by David Brooks | Mar 16, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Kevin Landrigan at the Union-Leader spotted an interesting tidbit from AAA and turned it into an interesting story: Using brine to clean snow and ice from roads, as compared to road salt, might be better for the environment but it’s worse for cars. Why?...
by David Brooks | Mar 16, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The Valley News has a Q&A with a Dartmouth math professor who has joined the push to download and preserve data related to climate science, fearing that the current administration will delete it. The college is providing server space, as is UNH and many other...
by David Brooks | Mar 12, 2017 | Blog
This report from UNH came out last week, while I was on vacation, so here it is late. It will, I think, change few minds because of some of the folks behind it (funding by The Nature Conservancy? Cameron Wake is involved? Conspiracy and fake news!) but it’s...
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I am writing a column about arsenic naturally occurring in new Hampshire groundwater, so I thought I’d rerun this 2012 column I wrote for the Telegraph: You think you know New Hampshire? Yeah, me too. So why don’t we know about the Massabesic Gneiss Complex?...
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2017 | Newsletter
Why would you care about what happens to pieces of wood shoved into forest floors? Because … Science! So says the USDA Northern Forest Research Station: Soil organic matter is key to maintaining site productivity because of its role in water availability,...