Environment

Humans lower their heart and respiratory rate every night when they go to sleep, but torpor slows the rate down even further. A prolonged sleep state is especially useful for wild animals during the coldest weeks of winter when food is scarce.

“Now we have an actual clock that is counting down towards the launch of New Hampshire's community power market,” said Henry Herndon.

Bahugana was the most well-known leader of an anti-deforestation movement in the Indian Himalayas in the 1970s.

Philip asks: “Have humans always thought of ice as cold? To put it another way: would a neanderthal in Maine still have needed a jacket in November?”

In the new year, resolve to get outside, be still, listen and observe. And revisit Jane Yolen's Owl Moon for inspiration to go owling.

In the new year, resolve to get outside, be still, listen and observe. And revisit Jane Yolen's Owl Moon for inspiration to go owling.

A bill introduced for the upcoming session has a vision. But one renewable energy leader says it could introduce hurdles for the state’s budding solar industry.

Indigenous people, together with other people of color, manage just 1% of what we now know as Vermont's farmland.

Many new farmers get deterred by the process of finding suitable land, according to Melissa Benedikt, who now works as a full-time farmer in Goffstown.

In our second annual 'friluftsliv' special, we turn to Norwegian culture for inspiration on how best to approach the coldest quarter of the year.