The average temperature at Concord airport this summer was higher that it has been since Ulysses S. Grant was president, with the temperature rising above 90 degrees on 24 days. Portland, Maine, meanwhile, saw its hottest summer on record, by a long shot. The National...

The Concord Monitor depends on advertising revenue. So why is it showing me an advertisement for a product that will block advertisements, thus reducing our income? Because our non-local ads are the product of algorithms via Google or some such service. Nobody said...

When first described to me, it sounded like a simple task: Figure out how to protect a butterfly that lives only on the Presidential Range. Simple? Ha! Nothing’s simple in wildlife biology, especially when you’re dealing with a tiny creature – the caterpillars are so...

So many bad things are happening in the environment that the sight of what looks like huge balls of cotton candy all over some trees feels like the latest new disaster. But don’t fret: They’re routine and not as bad as they look. These aren’t gypsy moths or tent...

In a sign that I am spending too much time in my AC-free home office that gets pretty toasty in the afternoon, I recently asked this on Twitter: On most (all?) electric fans with several speeds, the setting on the control knob closest to "off" is "high" - subsequent...