It’s a warm summer morning and Maria Colby’s mission is to band a young bald eagle, rescued after it tumbled from its nest a few weeks earlier.
Saturday, July 31, 2021
A push to open up more national forest land for timber harvesting is spurring debate in New Hampshire.
A group of nine men was evacuated by Environmental Police from in the Connecticut River in Northampton Friday after rising water levels left them stuck on a small high point at the north end of the island.
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
The U.S. Defense Department responded too slowly to reduce the dangers of cancer-causing chemicals used in firefighting foam, despite knowing the health hazards for decades, and then failed to put in place adequate measures to protect personnel, the environment and communities near military …
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Timber workers, home builders push for more harvesting on federal lands.
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Nature Conservancy announces plan to expand access to Cedar Swamp
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Report: Military's flawed oversight of toxic chemicals increased risks to personnel, public
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Environmental Police evacuate campers from Northampton island as Connecticut River levels rise
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U.S. studies plan to pay fishing industry for offshore wind impacts
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Saint-Gobain testing its new air filtration machine in Merrimack
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Book aims to educate children about outdoors, roles of conservation officers
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Pappas pushes for PFAS cleanup reforms
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Land trust buys 400-plus acres in Barrington, Strafford
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Portsmouth completes $92 million Peirce Island sewage treatment plant
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
The Biden administration is considering ways to ensure the U.S. commercial fishing industry is paid for any losses it incurs from the planned expansion of offshore wind power in the Atlantic Ocean, according to state and federal officials involved in the matter.
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Wildlife Biologist Jessica Carloni recently accompanied retired Fish and Game biologist Steve Wheeler to assist with banding kestrel chicks.
Monday, July 26, 2021
The Nature Conservancy unveiled a $700,000 plan Monday to improve access to the Manchester Cedar Swamp Preserve, a 640-acre conservation area in the northwest corner of the city.
Smoke from wildfires in the western U.S. and Canada has once again blanketed New Hampshire, prompting state environmental officials to urge those sensitive to air pollution to limit their time outdoors.
Saturday, July 24, 2021
BETHLEHEM — A book by a pair of North Country authors aims to teach young readers about the outdoors and how conservation officers protect the valuable resources within it.
Scores of wildfires raging across the Western United States’ forest and scrub have belched so much smoke that it is helping an army of firefighters gain ground on the nation’s biggest blaze, Oregon’s Bootleg fire, by blocking sunlight, officials said on Saturday.
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Facing a hotter future, dwindling water sources and an exploding population, scientists in one Middle East country are making it rain.
Nina Gomes is no average environmentalist. With bright pink goggles and just 4 years old, she picks trash with her father from the water along the beaches of Rio de Janeiro.
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
It took Roger Leighton decades to piece together 400-plus acres of forest in Strafford and Barrington, but his persistence paid off this month with the sale of the Leighton Forest to Southeast Land Trust.
