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By DAVID BROOKS

When it comes to making money from a downed tree there aren’t many options: you can slice it into boards, burn it for heat, or mash it into paper. That’s about it.Or so I thought, and you probably did too.“That’s really the tip of the proverbial...

By DAVID BROOKS

At least 10 New Hampshire towns including Canterbury, Pembroke, Webster and Warner will be deciding whether to join community power programs at town meeting next month, continuing a shift in the way local governments let their residents buy...

By DAVID BROOKS

As more snow and ice comes our way in what is proving to be a belated winter, it is time to consider a thorny seasonal question: When a winter storm is coming, do you park your car outdoors with windshield wipers up or do you leave them down?I have...

By DAVID BROOKS

From a shortage of wheelchair vans to a looming shortage of nursing-school faculty, from weak Medicare reimbursements to soaring cost of part-time medical staff, from burned-out nurses who quit to patients who get sicker while waiting to be seen, it...

By DAVID BROOKS

It’s hard to think of an environmental action that makes more sense than a business using its own waste product to replace something it otherwise has to buy. It makes sense even when it has a goofy name like “spunding.”That’s the term brewers use when...

By DAVID BROOKS

A New Hampshire company that kept losing staffers because they couldn’t afford to live nearby is tackling the problem in an unusual way – using a special zoning program in Dover to build 44 tiny homes on less than 4 acres.The project, a modern twist...

By DAVID BROOKS

It has been three full years of pandemic-era carnage in New Hampshire.“Carnage” is a little strong, perhaps. It’s more like a slow, steady increase in the number of New Hampshire residents who die, day in and day out, since our first official COVID-19...

By DAVID BROOKS

As the Warner River gets closer to protected status with a public hearing set for Thursday, here are two numbers to consider: 2,225 and 6.Those figures are the maximum and minimum possible river flows, measured in cubic feet per second, given in a...

By DAVID BROOKS

Have you ever thought “I’m just not a math person”? If so, how are you at fixing snowmobiles?The connection between backwood winter transportation and the quadratic equation may not be obvious to you, but some people would like to change...

By DAVID BROOKS

If you missed the statewide backyard bird count last weekend don’t fret; you can be part of a global backyard bird count this weekend.The Great Backyard Bird Count, launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society as one...

By DAVID BROOKS

More motorcyclists died on New Hampshire roads in 2022 than in any year in recent memory as overall fatal traffic accidents rose sharply, but the state bucked national trends by seeing no rise in pedestrian and bicyclist deaths.According to the New...

By DAVID BROOKS

When you start a scientific research project, you never know what you’re going to find. Here’s one thing that Devon O’Rourke found during his Ph.D. work at UNH: “I did not suspect that so many folks were going to be that excited about picking up bat...

By DAVID BROOKS

Solar and wind accounted for about 7% of the electricity produced by generators within New England in 2022, according to the group that oversees the power grid, with solar growing much faster than wind power in recent years.Solar farms made about 3.4%...

By DAVID BROOKS

In the latest twist of the borrow-things-rather-than-own-them movement, Concord Public Library has unveiled a novel program in which they’re lending out stuff as varied as ukuleles, soil analyzers and paper shredders.At least, I thought it was novel....

By DAVID BROOKS

The Arctic blast coming through the region on Friday and Saturday may not produce record cold but temperatures will fall far below zero and, combined with high winds, will be very dangerous.In what is becoming a more common winter occurrence, air...

By DAVID BROOKS

Pardon me for sounding cynical but over the years I have become dubious about claims that art can bring science to the masses. It seems to me that translating the quantitative into the qualitative usually creates little insight for the general...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire is going after two cryptocurrency companies that it says owes Granite State residents money, as regulators continue to wrestle with how to oversee digital assets using regulatory and legal systems created for very different types of...

Now that winter in New Hampshire is finally looking like winter in New Hampshire, we can indulge our favorite pastime of asking “How much snow did you get?” to everybody in sight, while hoping that we got more.Alas, I’m here to tell you that the only...

By DAVID BROOKS

A citizen science project called Raspberry Shake is allowing a few in New Hampshire to tune into the “unheard symphony of the planet” – as well as things that aren’t quite so symphonic.“I can tell when vehicles are driving by on the road. And it...

By DAVID BROOKS

The town of Canterbury hopes to join dozens of others in New Hampshire that will be buying their own electricity, showing that size is no obstacle for what seems a dauntingly complex move.“It was not hard to find a group of eight volunteers that were...