Climate change is affecting a wide range of wildlife, from plants and bees to birds and trees. A new study led by biologists at Boston University adds butterflies to the list, finding that…

On the lower levels of the food chain, danger is rarely out of spitting distance. Risk from predators has spurred the evolution of many clever adaptations – camouflage coloring, speedy retreat,…

Reader Paul Fillion submitted this picture that his daughter Renee took in central New Hampshire. What is it?

If summer were a weeklong vacation, mid-August would be Friday afternoon. You’re not packing your bags to come home yet, but there’s an awareness that there’s more behind you than in…

For cabinetmakers, both professional and amateur, the name Christian Becksvoort will have the same kind of resonance that Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle will have for a baseball fan. Becksvoort has been…

Last week my eight-year-old nephew, Romeo, got on an animals kick. He's an inquisitive kid who's fascinated by things like white blood cells and he absolutely loves sharks. So, knowing that I…

Soils throughout the world store more carbon, in the form of organic matter, than all of the vegetation and atmosphere combined. Microorganisms in the soil – bacteria, fungi, protozoa,…

A project to map the genes of spruce and pine trees has revealed that the genome of conifers has remained pretty much the same for more than 100 million years. This stability explains why…

Some catch their prey while in flight; others sit and wait for prey to come near. They’re a group of birds known as aerial insectivores, and they’re in trouble. In our region, this…

I went to Wyoming two weeks ago – it was my first visit as an adult. Vague childhood memories of Devil’s Tower and Yellowstone didn’t prepare me for just how different the landscape…

Ten inches wide and bumpy all over, this melon-shaped mass was discovered in Church Pond in the Adirondacks. What is it? Photo by Judy Brook.

If Richard Jagels had a casebook like Sherlock Holmes, the titles might be: “The Case of the Twig in the Mirror”, “The Case of the Killer Ship Mast”, “The Case of the…

Do you remember your answer to that youthful question: if you had to be one or the other, would you rather be deaf or blind? Most of us believed we’d never have to be either, though my answer…

In the case of Snake Fungal Disease, if the Jedi Knight from Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi, summoned the power of nature by uttering, “The spores be with you,” he would be spot on. This…

Recently, I have been hiking with my infant son. It’s hard to know what, if anything, he takes from these forays. At two months, it’s a safe bet he’s not counting the chickadees,…

Consider the ubiquitous woodchuck (also known as the groundhog); an animal found from Labrador to Alabama; throughout all of the eastern U.S., west to Kansas, Nebraska, and the northern tip of Idaho;…

One of the rarest plants in New England is also one of the hardest to see, even if you know where to find it. That’s because it takes a bit of paddling on the Connecticut River to find each of…

This tree seems to have had a branch or a second tree growing from it, then it died, but then it seemed to have grafted itself back. Would appreciate learning more about this. Jackie Lyman, NH When…

Bella was first to find the old well. A border collie mutt with a heavy coat, she made it her business to sniff out water. On a hot day’s walk, she inserted herself tail first into its opening…

These ears perked up for a camera click in Holderness, New Hampshire. Who owns these ears?