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...
by David Brooks | Apr 22, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Turning on renewables for the electric grid is great but what really needs to happen, to reduce future climate change, is for fossil fuel plants to turn off. That happened Easter Sunday when New England saw a record low “load,” the term for amount of...
by David Brooks | Apr 22, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Few activities get more public support than picking up litter from the side of the road. But to mark Earth Day, I’m about to argue that we shouldn’t do it. Wait – don’t go! Hear me out. This idea has been percolating in my head for a while and coalesced...