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 29, 2017 | Newsletter
Slowly but steadily, an enormous mass of warm rock is rising beneath part of New England, although a major volcanic eruption isn’t likely for millions of years, a Rutgers University-led study suggests. (Read more here) “The upwelling we detected is like a hot air...
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...
by David Brooks | Nov 28, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
It hasn’t been that many years since I first heard the phrase “citizen science” but nowadays it’s all over the place. You can do everything from counting frogs to deciphering handwriting on 18th-century ship’s logs to helping NASA find...
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