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By DAVID BROOKS

In a rare bit of good news about climate change, UNH researchers say that two negative effects of the altered environment seem to cancel each other out, suggesting that soil carbon in our forests won’t be hurt in the way people had feared.The...

By DAVID BROOKS

An electric vehicle charger is being unveiled in a Concord parking lot Wednesday and it’s gathering a lot of attention for a very odd reason: It’s really slow. “The reality is that cars are parked over 90% of the time. This is a great way to harness...

By DAVID BROOKS

When it comes to climate change, most of us have finally worked our way through the five stages of grief.Some lunkheads are still stuck on denial but the onslaught of global weather disasters such as Hurricane Helene means the bulk of humanity has...

By DAVID BROOKS

The pun, you’ve probably heard, is the lowest form of humor, the verbal equivalent of a Three Stooges eye-poke. Don’t tell that to Richard Lederer.“Edgar Allen Poe, of all people … wrote of puns: ‘It has been said that those who dislike them are those...

The Department of the Interior Monday will sell leases on sites for offshore wind in the Gulf of Maine next month. The sale will cover eight areas on the Outer Continental Shelf off Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. If fully developed, these...

By DAVID BROOKS

Any big city exhibits aspects of William Gibson’s famous line that the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed – but few take it as far as Beijing.(Yes, folks, this is an example of that fine journalistic tradition: the “What I did on...

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Much of social media is nasty, as we all know, but there are places where it is charming. One of those is the Reddit subgroup about composting.Yes, composting.Every day people from around the world post pictures on the group showing their pile of...

By DAVID BROOKS

There’s a group of New Hampshire volunteers who are like mail carriers in that neither rain nor snow will keep them from their appointed rounds.That’s because rain and snow is the reason for their appointed rounds.“My husband and I really like...

By DAVID BROOKS

Moving results from the research world into the real world can be a real challenge but I think the challenge is hardest when the research concerns people’s health.It’s one thing to show that a medicine or treatment or practice helps patients in a lab...

By DAVID BROOKS

Consider this scenario: You go away on vacation and then come home to find that somebody has bought your house without your knowledge and without paying you anything. They lock you out, and your only remedy is to take them to court.Sounds far-fetched,...

By DAVID BROOKS

Concord is gearing up for the start of lower electricity rates through the community power system, with a public information meeting set for Sept. 4, but one question about rates has arisen.The program is set to begin in October, making Concord one of...

By DAVID BROOKS

A New Hampshire resident has died after being infected with EEE virus, a mosquito-born illness that hadn’t been seen in people in this state since 2014.The news, released Tuesday, comes as Massachusetts is seeing a surge in mosquitoes carrying the...

By DAVID BROOKS

Today’s insight into the scientific method is brought to you via a nondescript ocean dweller with the unlyrical name of lumpfish.The lumpfish, as I learned from a UNH press release, was the subject of recent research by Dr. Elizabeth Fairchild, a...

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The bald eagle who had been marveled at and enjoyed by thousands of people over the past quarter century, acting as one of New Hampshire Audubon’s most popular ambassadors at the Concord facility and in school trips, has died. He was 36.The eagle,...

By DAVID BROOKS

Slow-growing New Hampshire has continued its population gain since the pandemic but with a notable change from past years: Even places far from Boston have added some people.“Traditionally our population growth has occurred along the Massachusetts...

By DAVID BROOKS

This column concerns a New Hampshire housing development that will be net-zero, something the world really needs, but before we get to details let’s face facts: Your first reaction is that it will be too expensive or too weird to make a difference.I...

By DAVID BROOKS

Concord celebrated the eventual arrival of electric school buses Wednesday thanks to federal programs designed to replace the diesel buses that have been polluting schoolyards and streets for decades.The key word, however, is “eventual.” The three...

By DAVID BROOKS

An online scam that pretended to invest a New Hampshire resident’s money in cryptocurrency, complete with a fake account, has been issued a cease and desist order by the state Bureau of Securities.According to a press release from the Secretary of...

By DAVID BROOKS

There’s a good reason why the federal government is giving $450 million to New England to help get electric heat pumps into homes and businesses: They’re great machines and not just for climate change reasons.“I have been saving about $1,000 a year,”...

By DAVID BROOKS

Today’s column, I’m happy to say, involves good news about the environment. It’s not huge news, admittedly, and it’s not quite as exciting as I thought it was going to be, but in today’s world, I’ll take anything I can get.The story concerns a...