by David Brooks | Sep 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The average temperature at Concord airport this summer was higher that it has been since Ulysses S. Grant was president, with the temperature rising above 90 degrees on 24 days. Portland, Maine, meanwhile, saw its hottest summer on record, by a long shot. The National...
by David Brooks | Sep 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The Concord Monitor depends on advertising revenue. So why is it showing me an advertisement for a product that will block advertisements, thus reducing our income? Because our non-local ads are the product of algorithms via Google or some such service. Nobody said...
by David Brooks | Sep 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
When first described to me, it sounded like a simple task: Figure out how to protect a butterfly that lives only on the Presidential Range. Simple? Ha! Nothing’s simple in wildlife biology, especially when you’re dealing with a tiny creature – the caterpillars are so...
by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The Science Director at the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock writes an outdoors column for the Valley News. The latest looks at biofluorescence, the interesting but not well-understood process by which parts of various species (NH amphibians among...
by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: A researcher at the University of New Hampshire has received a USDA grant to develop new gene editing tools that could help scientists unravel how certain bacteria, which were previously understudied, promote growth in plants and protect them...
by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
So many bad things are happening in the environment that the sight of what looks like huge balls of cotton candy all over some trees feels like the latest new disaster. But don’t fret: They’re routine and not as bad as they look. These aren’t gypsy moths or tent...
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