by David Brooks | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
We all fixate on record high temperatures for a given location and time, and understandably so, but just as significant, certainly in terms of human health and also in terms of reflecting the climate’s changes, is highest low temperature for a given period. A...
by David Brooks | Jul 3, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
In this era of concern about invasive species, people spend a lot of time and effort warning against moving plants and animals around too much. Except for trout. We move them around like crazy. Last week the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department completed aerial...
by David Brooks | Jul 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Lots of people, including me, have become interested in helping insects that pollinate our crops, but it’s not easy to know what to plant. Here comes UNH News Service to the rescue: Scientists with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the...
by David Brooks | Jun 29, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The death of a New Hampshire man said to be infected with a rare mosquito-borne disease called Jamestown Canyon virus has raised questions as to whether he is its first recorded fatality. Thomas Bengtson’s widow, Susan Bengtson, says two separate tests found evidence...
by David Brooks | Jun 28, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
(This ran Tuesday; on Thursday I’m hunting down reports of a functioning N.H. solar panel installed in 1973 but so far, this one is still the winner.) In 1979, or maybe it was 1978, Ralph Jimenez and Linda Graham got tired of lighting their off-the-grid home via...
by David Brooks | Jun 28, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
For decades starting in the Great Depression the use of wood as a heating source in the U.S. declined as it was replaced by coal, oil and electricity. But in the first years of this century wood made a little comeback, fueled (ha!) in part by wood pellet technology,...