“Third boxcar, midnight train / destination, Brunswick, Maine. / Old worn out shirt and shoes / Amtrak’s drone won’t blow no fuse” ..

From UNH News Service: Freshwater streams and rivers naturally clean up some forms of pollution originating from urban and agricultural areas, but increased storm intensity reduces this ability, which underscores the need to improve the management of nonpoint sources...

I’m not sure if this is a back-of-envelope calculation, or a back-of-Cottonelle calculation.

Perhaps because I grew up in Virginia, I can never shake the feeling that snow is almost too weird to be real. Each time it snows, I am surprised anew that such a wispy substance can fall from on high, trap you in your home for a week, create the most beautiful scenes...

It hasn't been that many years since I first heard the phrase "citizen science" but nowadays it's all over the place. You can do everything from counting frogs to deciphering handwriting on 18th-century ship's logs to helping NASA find exoplanets. To celebrate this...

A report from the United States Geological Survey casts doubt on assertions made by researchers, including Elijah Stommel at Dartmouth College, that blooms of cyanobacteria are connected to certain neurological diseases, including ALS – also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease – and possibly Alzheimer’s.

The question of whether the fight against climate change is helped or hurt by burning wood rather than using other fuels is complicated. I noted in a recent column that I have become convinced that burning wood solely to produce electricity is not a good idea from a...