Environment

Offices housing the U.S. Geological Survey's New England Water Science Center and the regional headquarters of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will not close at the end of the summer. The agencies still face steep budget cuts under the Trump administration's budget proposal.

A New England group joined a national bird count to spread the joy of birding and make it more accessible to everyone.

At a Mount Sunapee advisory meeting Tuesday, members of Newbury’s Conservation Commission presented their findings on potential contamination coming from the resort’s wastewater system. But state regulators say the system’s conditions show no cause for concern.

The funding, about $2 million total, will go towards assessing and cleaning up sites including a former stable and a former textile processing mill.

A New Hampshire ecologist has discovered male satiny willows growing along the Connecticut River in the North Country. The sighting is a clue in a yet unsolved mystery.

From New England Asters to Lowbush blueberries, native plants are all over New Hampshire. The Garden Club of America is trying to encourage people to notice them – and maybe plant some of their own.

We all know lead is bad, but why? And how did something so dangerous become so ubiquitous?

How well do you know the nests of our feathered friends?

Granite Shore Power, which owns Merrimack Station, says the exemption from the federal government means they won’t need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to comply with new regulations months before closing down.

Laurene Allen, who co-founded the advocacy group Merrimack Citizens for Clean Water, has been advocating for remediation and justice in communities impacted by PFAS contamination for almost a decade.