Archives

Mercury Hotspots in the Northeast

By Mark Bevis on Monday, January 8, 2007.

The latest edition of BioScience Journal, due out Tuesday, has an article of interest to New Hampshire.

The peer reviewed journal includes a report from the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation about mercury hotspots in the Northeast, from Nova Scotia to Massachusetts, west to the Adirondacks.

The 3-year study involved 11 scientists and more than 73 hundred samples to determine mercury levels.

In some cases, researchers found fish with levels 10 times higher than what the EPA has determined safe.

Dr. Charles Driscoll is one of the lead authors of the study.

He's a Professor of Environmental Systems Engineering at New York's Syracuse University.

He described the studies findings to NHPR's Mark Bevis.

listen: Listen with Windows Media PlayerListen with an MP3 Player

Dateline Vermont

By Liz Bulkley on Monday, January 8, 2007.

Journalist Chris Graff has covered the Green Mountain State's biggest news stories for the past thirty years. His new book, Dateline Vermont looks back on those decades and shows how Vermont went from being a Republican outpost to the home of Civil Unions, Howard Dean, and Bernie Sanders. He'll talk to us about that and how he dealt with his controversial dismissal from the Associated Press.

listen: Listen with Windows Media PlayerListen with an MP3 Player

A Yankee Magazine Makeover

By Richard Ager on Monday, January 8, 2007.

This seventy-two-year-old icon of New England culture has just been updated for the new millenium. It’ll be bigger, glossier…and, perhaps – a little less “Yankee” than the magazine your Grandmother loved. We’ll talk with the men behind the changes. Richard's guests are Jamie Trowbridge, President of Yankee Publishing; Jud Hale, Editor-in-Chief of YANKEE Magazine and The Old Farmer's Almanac and Mel Allen, Editor of YANKEE Magazine.

listen: Listen with an MP3 Player
NPR News