I’ve seen all kinds of birds on the wooded New Hampshire hilltop where I live, but never — until recently — a duck. So when I spotted a pair of...
An ocean heat wave sent temperatures soaring to a new high last year in the Gulf of Maine, continuing an alarming trend in the important marine...
On a cold November 2020 day, my daughter Lucy and I detected a strange floral scent in our woods. I challenged her to find its source, and promised...
It takes a lot of incentive to get people to go out into the woods and shift 15,000 kilograms (16.5 tons) of snow around by hand. Fortunately...
One late winter day, I heard our dog barking fiercely from the yard. I went outside to find him standing about 6 feet away from a hawk that was on...
New Hampshire’s own Mount Washington will be the star of a major motion picture opening later this month but be warned: It’s not any Mount...
When my wife and I got a Prius a half-dozen years ago we became those annoying people who pay very close attention to their gas mileage, and we...
A trend of fewer baby lobsters appearing in a key fishing ground off New England appears to be continuing.The baby lobsters settle at the bottom of...