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NORTH HAMPTON — A Londonderry man likely faces charges after local police said he deliberately drove his car off the road and toward the ocean Friday night.
This is the third consecutive year that the Manchester VAMC has received an award from Practice Greenhealth.
Green crabs are a problem in New Hampshire because they disrupt ecosystems and reduce biodiversity. Each crab can eat up to 40 clams or oysters a day.
The message is clear: Seals and selfies don’t mix.
Fears of “red tide” contamination have prompted state officials to close New Hampshire’s coastal waters to shellfish harvesting, including mussels, clams and oysters.
ST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Florida's southernmost alligators are too skinny and Lake Okeechobee is choking on sediment, but natural springs long dry are bubbling again because of ecosystem repairs highlighted in a new report card on Everglades health.
CONCORD — A New Boston logger and property owner are seeking $4 million in damages from the town of Hooksett and local officials for shutting down a tree-harvesting operation.
The cause of the contamination is still being investigated, but, according to state officials, the contamination originated at Biological Recycling Company.
There are 113 properties in town that have solar systems.
It may soon be legal for the dead to push daisies, or any other flower, in backyard gardens across Washington state.
MANCHESTER — The state’s U.S. House delegation says the vitality of the region depends on getting federal grants to improve “outdated” sewer systems that allow hundreds of thousands of gallons of untreated water into the Merrimack River every year.
BRENTWOOD — A Salem property owner has been given 10 days to clean up the mountains of printer boxes that have become an eyesore for neighbors, but if he doesn’t comply the town will have authority to move in.
Thirty-three years after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion, Pripyat’s broad boulevards are crowded with tangles of overgrown trees.
PLAISTOW — Francine Hart has lived in town for 34 years and says she has never had good well water.
DURHAM — Wildfires alter the chemistry of streams for years, according to new research from the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire.
Plastic recycling is evolving. The next step will be more like reincarnation.
As of Wednesday night, the town of Hooksett has eliminated all single-stream recycling.
Researchers at UNH have found a dramatic decline of 14 wild bee species that are important across the Northeast for the pollination of major local crops like apples, blueberries and cranberries.
PORTSMOUTH — The Wild & Scenic Film Festival tour brings environmental activism and a love of nature to the Music Hall Friday at 7 p.m.
MANCHESTER — Nearly 2,000 acres of land surrounding Tower Hill Pond has been protected under a conservation easement.
WHITEFIELD — Citing the failure of Eversource to come to terms on a new power-purchase agreement with six of New Hampshire’s biomass energy producers, four producers are suspending fuel purchases and operation.
The committee says it will continue to monitor recycling costs.
Northern New England bobcats are being affected by suburban sprawl and climate change, according to researchers at New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station.
Brady Sullivan has agreed to pay a $500,000 administrative fine related to managing contaminated soils removed from 195 McGregor St., according to state officials.
LISBON — The Ammonoosuc and Gale rivers are under close watch as rain and ice jams threaten spring flooding.
The site was used by Dartmouth College’s medical school as a disposal site for the carcasses of lab animals from 1960 to the mid-1970s.
An egg farmer here is the newest poster child for harnessing the power of the sun, which, despite a tariff and a second consecutive year of a decline in the number of New Hampshire workers in the solar energy industry, is poised for significant growth in 2019.
About every three years the Environmental Protection Agency announces its National Enforcement Initiatives.
EPPING — The voters had their say on a natural gas storage facility proposed to built near Route 101, but town officials are worried that many were confused.
The source of the contamination is believed to be the historic and frequent use of Class B firefighting foam.
Project officials have said the committee should have deliberated on all four of the criteria that are required for the project to receive a needed state certificate.
BRENTWOOD — Police are creating a buzz in hope it will put a dent in the number of Bud Light beer cans being tossed out along scenic Lake Road.
MERRIMACK — Local residents voted this week to have the Merrimack Village District spend $14.5 million to filter four public wells — a project that will increase user rates by nearly 80 percent.
When the Common Man restaurant group decided to transition from plastic to paper straws, it ran into a challenge: most of the paper products on the market don’t hold up.
Southeast Land Trust hopes the farm will become a working farm again, and become accessible to the public.
Earlier this month, voters in Salem and Windham anted up $6.1 million to guarantee access to something they’ve never needed in the past — water from Manchester.
As most of the New England states pursue aggressive goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition to clean energy sources, some of their methods are irking New Hampshire officials, who foresee Granite Staters picking up the tab for those policies in the form of higher power bills.
SIDNEY, Iowa — His farm is still cut off by floodwaters, so Iowa soybean farmer Pat Sheldon had to view the damage from the air. On a helicopter ride over what seemed like an endless stretch of water, he came to a place he recognized as his own land — and saw that one of the grain silos had …
While eating lunch at the Mineral City Mill and Grill in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on Friday, Rep. Steve King — the Iowa Republican who has made a series of statements embracing white nationalism — got a face-full of water from another restaurant patron, authorities said.
It would add $3.50 more to the monthly bill of a typical residential customer using 600 kilowatt-hours per month, officials said.
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