Putting sand on roads instead of salt is better for the environment but not ideal. Sand has its issues, too. It tends to wash off into ditches and then streams/lakes, where it can carry pollutants or clog plants and other aquatic life. One solution? Use very small...

From UNH News Service: Planting grass turf in tilled agricultural soil greatly reduced the ability of new growth of the invasive shrub glossy buckthorn to establish itself in a new area by seed, according to researchers with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment...

From NH Aviation Museum: More than a century ago, her dad started Blake's Creamery in Manchester, a company still going strong today. But growing up in the 1920s, Bernice Blake wasn't interested in the food business. Instead sshe took flying lessons at then-new...

Study says it’s probably the way our health-care system is set up. The incentives exist to sell lots of pain pills, and we take them.

(Don't trust my reporting? You can look at the whole presentation on the ISO-New England web page here.) There’s an “elegant and simpler” way for New England’s power grid to deal with concerns about running out of fuel during a cold snap while meeting climate-change...

Do you want to hear me talk about my column this week, which concerns new research correlating road salt usage with toxic metals moving out of the soil into our water, with a side order of "hooray for citizen science"? Sure you do! Well, you have a choice! You can...