by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Services: The University of New Hampshire has launched the Sustainability Indicator Management and Analysis Platform (SIMAP), a tool that offers campuses an online platform for calculating, reporting, and tracking their carbon and nitrogen footprints....
by David Brooks | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Among the various videos that have caught the public attention in the past week is a really disturbing one showing a gigantic coconut crab – the world’s largest land invertebrate – eat attack a sleeping seagull-ish sea bird called a booby and eat it...
by David Brooks | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Serita Frey, a soil microbiologist and a professor at UNH in Durham, got curious and found old data about the date that a campus ginko tree dumps its leaves in late fall. (The species famously drops all its leaves at once, like a strip tease for attention-deficit...
by David Brooks | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a really complicated dance going on in Northern New England’s forests right now involving loggers – the folks who are either arboreal eco-villains or a vital part of the forest-human ecosystem, depending on your point of view. (I lean toward...
by David Brooks | Nov 8, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Regular Granite Geek readers (hi, dad!) are qjuite familiar with Betty and Barney Hill, the Portsmouth couple who say they were taken aboard an alien spaceship in 1961, launching the whole alien-abduction craze. They’ve been the subjects of books, a movie (James...
by David Brooks | Nov 8, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Keeping the ocean away is hard, especially when it just keeps getting closer. One good idea to let Mother Nature help – hence, as NHPR reports, efforts on the Seacoast to plant beach grass to help build up and maintain barriers. In places like Seabrook, many...