by David Brooks | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Remember how warm it was when the leaves started turning color? Your memory isn’t playing tricks on you: It broke a record. September, October and November, the period known as “meteorological autumn” to weather watchers, was the warmest on record in Concord – and by...
by David Brooks | Dec 5, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The Brunswick, Maine, Police Department may become the first police department in the country to use drones to patrol for trespassers along railroad tracks in town. It would also be make the first in Maine to use drones to look for potential criminal activity, rather...
by David Brooks | Dec 4, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Freshwater streams and rivers naturally clean up some forms of pollution originating from urban and agricultural areas, but increased storm intensity reduces this ability, which underscores the need to improve the management of nonpoint sources...
by David Brooks | Nov 30, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The city of Concord is looking at building an anerobic digester one day to better process its sewage. I’ll have a column about that next week – but while reporting for it, I came across this intriguing back-of-the-envelope calculation: Each week the...
by David Brooks | Nov 29, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
E&E News, which focuses on energy and the enviornment, recently ran a story about a former UMass-Amherst professor often seen as the father of modern wind power because of the very early work he did in designing, testing and improving wind turbines. Their story...
by David Brooks | Nov 28, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Perhaps because I grew up in Virginia, I can never shake the feeling that snow is almost too weird to be real. Each time it snows, I am surprised anew that such a wispy substance can fall from on high, trap you in your home for a week, create the most beautiful scenes...
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