A Maine town and an island are part of an interesting-looking federal Department of Energy program to help "remote and island" communities with the energy transition, mostly by figuring out renewable alternatives to shipping is tons of diesel for generators. Many of...

A study in Northern Michigan (where the emerald ash borer first appeared in North American) looked at tree health and EAB numbers is some woods that been hit by the invasive bug for a decade found some white trees healthy and persisting. Abstract from the U.S. Forest...

I don't usually link to articles with no obvious New England connection, but this NY Times story (paywall, maybe) gives a terrific rule of thumb for deciding how to stay safe as COVID-19 eases: In every situation, she makes sure she’s meeting two out of three...

When ice storms or the arrival of a destructive insect kills a lot of trees at once, it's not obvious how to respond: Cut them down quickly or let nature take its slow, messy course? Dead trees are a valuable part of the ecosystem, providing homes for bugs, birds and...

By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from April 11 to April 18. Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Hand-In with Topology Hiding Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,979,948, initially...

NHPR reports that Eversource, the state's biggest electric utility by far, is joining the Electric Highway Coalition, an agreement by utilities in other parts of the country to support more electric car charging stations. They're the first New England utility to join;...

The town of Derry has turned off a couple of electric-vehicle chargers near its downtown because they've gotten too expensive to run. This article in the Eagle-Tribune is short on details, but I assume the issue is demand charges - extra fees the utility imposes is...