by David Brooks | Feb 22, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
The changing climate is going to affect a lot of things around us in the coming years, but perhaps nothing more than the most overlooked (quite literally) item in local government’s quiver of tools, the lowly road culvert. “Recent trends show that we are getting...
by David Brooks | Oct 27, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
Conferences about climate change tend to focus on atmospheric molecules and energy density, but an interestingly different conversation this past weekend in Hampton centered on building codes and cigarettes. Cigarettes? I’ll get to that in a minute. The conference was...
by David Brooks | Oct 6, 2015 | Environmental, Nature
Barry Rock is retired, so you might not pay much attention when he laments that something was better when he was young. When the topic is leaf-peeping, however, you absolutely should pay attention. “There was a time you could count on it like clockwork, that there...