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By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

As testimony on bills targeting landfill safety in New Hampshire continues in both chambers of the legislature, the state Department of Environmental Services maintains its stance against proposed legislation advocating for a four-year moratorium of...

By FRANCES MIZE

WILDER — Last week, Brad Goedkoop, a former Hartford tree warden, was walking on the connector trail between North and South Kilowatt Park when he noticed that against the green, late summer vegetation, the staghorn sumacs along the path were withered...

By FRANCES MIZE

SHARON — Demand for solar panels and heat pumps has skyrocketed, but rapidly approaching deadlines for climate goals in the Twin States underscore a lack of workers who actually know how to install them.“How do I put this bluntly?” said Rob Adams,...

By FRANCES MIZE

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Vermonters are swatting at twice as many mosquitoes this summer than the seasonal average over the last decade. As the climate warms, some scientists say that the pesky population boom is a sign of things to come.To stay safe...

By FRANCES MIZE

ROYALTON — Until midday Thursday, more than two weeks after this month’s historic flooding, customers of the town’s volunteer-run fire district, which brings water to 200 users in South Royalton village, had to boil their water for 60 seconds before...

By ADRIANA MARTINEZ-SMILEY

New Hampshire is asking the officials in charge of its 1,200 water systems to find any service lines that may contain unhealthy levels of lead and copper. It’s part of an effort to meet updated federal water quality standards. In drinking water, the...

By RAY COUTURE 

HANOVER — How will forests in the Upper Valley fare when there are no more ash trees?That question, and specifically what will happen to the fungi that interact with those ash trees as the emerald ash borer continues its expansion into Vermont and New...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Sherri Cheney was awed by the sight of towering mounds of food scraps mixed with ground-up wood chips from demolition debris, reaching a height of at least 7 feet at the Lebanon landfill’s transfer station. These piles of waste were being converted...

VERSHIRE — The Environmental Protection Agency is hosting a public meeting Tuesday night to discuss its preliminary cleanup of an abandoned Vershire copper mine.The former Ely Mine sits on about 350 acres off Beanville Road. The conclusion of mining...

By FRANCES MIZE

THETFORD — As anglers cast about Upper Valley’s streams and rivers this spring, Thetford Academy seventh graders had some brook trout to unload last week.About 30 students gathered along the Ompompanoosuc River at the base of the Union Village Dam on...

By FRANCES MIZE

PLAINFIELD — At 2 a.m. last Thursday, owner Norah Lake and her work crew at Sweetland, a 12-acre fruit and vegetable farm in Norwich, were in the orchard, dousing apple, plum and pear trees from a network of irrigation pumps.They hoped encasing the...

By EMMA COTTON

With $140 million of federal money in hand, state officials have launched a sweeping process to inventory and remove lead service lines that connect public drinking water systems to homes, businesses and other entities.Officials with the Vermont...

By FRANCES MIZE

Vermont officials are scheduled to host a series of public hearings on proposed regulations for trapping and for hunting coyotes with dogs. The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, along with the state’s Fish and Wildlife Board, proposed the...

WEST LEBANON — The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department is advising residents against interfering with young animals this spring. The majority of deer fawns are born in May and June, and the season leads many New Hampshire residents to “fear the...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Vermont Center for Ecostudies is requesting help with a backyard tick research project.Biologists with the nonprofit hope to biologically survey upwards of 50 Upper Valley properties, in both Vermont and New...

LEBANON — New Hampshire Fish and Game is asking residents to help with its annual summer bat count. The effort is part of the New Hampshire Bat Counts Project, which monitors the state’s summer bat colonies. The department is calling for land and...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation is seeking volunteers to maintain trails in Orange County.Trail maintainers assess trail conditions, document maintenance needs and report to the district’s recreation...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

After a 10-year deal with Casella Waste Systems, Concord is on track to shift from burying its trash to burning it.Under the terms of their new contract set to begin on July 1, 2024, Casella will continue to collect and transport the city’s waste, but...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

For students at Hollis Primary School, diverting food waste from landfills is no difficult task. As many towns in New Hampshire struggle to get their residents to divert food waste, a program that was started through a grant fund at the school has...

By CLAIRE POTTER

CANAAN — This may well be one of the last summers to enjoy Goose Pond before it is drained down to a 15-foot pool as the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services repairs its dam.“Nobody’s thrilled. The scope of this project is enormous,”...

By CLAIRE POTTER

Volunteers picked through feathers probing for small ticks with a white blaze on their backs at weighing stations during turkey hunting season. Vermont is on the lookout for the lone star tick, a species spreading north.“Climate change, that’s why we...