The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hs set up a sort of mini-X-Prize for ideas to help bats threatened by white-nose syndrome, the fungus that has wiped out entire populations of bats throughout the country. What's interesting about this challenge, which offers up to...

 Serita Frey, professor of soil microbial ecology at the University of New Hampshire and a researcher with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, has been named one of the most highly cited researchers in the world, a distinction earned by fewer than 0.1...

New England has more than enough electricity on hand even if extreme weather hits this winter, according to an estimate from the organization that runs the six-state power grid. The announcement, while not a surprise, is important because this is the first winter...

White-tail deer hunting season is in full swing, which means that Fish and Game wardens are yanking teeth from dead deer, bears, bobcat and moose and sending them to a lab in Montana. Why are they doing that, you ask? This story from September explains all!

The state’s new community power law scares me. It should excite me because it takes a very New Hampshire-y approach to the vital issue of redesigning our entire electric system for a climate-changing world.  The law, passed this summer, gives towns...

Good story (as usual) from Tux Turkel, Portland Press-Herald's long-time energy writer, about the possibility of using excess power from Maine onshore wind farms, which are constrained by the grid, to generate hydrogen or methane that could then be shipped and burned....