by David Brooks | Jan 3, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
According to the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine, last year was the warmest year in Concord since record-keeping began in 1868. The year finished with an average temperature of 49.6 degrees, 0.2 degrees higher than 2023, the previous hottest year on record....
by David Brooks | Jan 3, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The Caledonian-Record has a story about UNH and the Cog Railway on Mt. Washington working to electrify the iconic mountain-climbing train. “This privately funded quarter-million dollar project aims to have a prototype ready by 2025” and will have...
by David Brooks | Jan 3, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The SEE Science Center’s twelfth season of Science on Tap discussions continues Tuesday, Jan. 14. Science on Tap events are informal discussions with local scientists and experts on a particular topic. On Tuesday January 14th the topic will be: Extinction Here...
by David Brooks | Dec 31, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
I promise that this column was written by me and not by artificial intelligence. The fact that I have to write such a sentence says volumes about where we are at the moment. Here’s another one of those volumes: You can get a weekly email summarizing what happened at...
by David Brooks | Dec 31, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
People coming from other countries are playing an increasingly important role in New Hampshire’s small but consistent population growth, recent Census data shows. The number of adults and children living in the Granite State grew 2.3% between the 2020 Census and 2024,...
by David Brooks | Dec 31, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire is gearing up to join a federal program testing dairy cattle for virulent strains of bird flu, which so far has been detected here only in some wild birds in early 2024. In other parts of the country, concern about Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza is...
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