Julia Vaz
Summer Intern 2025I pursue stories about the science and social impacts behind climate change. My goal is to innovate the way we tell stories about climate change, exploring multimedia approaches to highlight local communities and their relationships to nature. Before NHPR, I covered climate policy and environmental justice for Heatmap News and Inside Climate News. I recently graduated from Brown University with degrees in Political Science and Modern Culture & Media.
-
Most of the state will see some improved air quality levels on Wednesday. But levels will still be unhealthy for Grafton, Sullivan and Cheshire counties. -
The 1879 structure sits in a spot prone to flooding, and recent floods destroyed the building’s heating system and inundated its basement. To save it, the group had the building moved 200 feet down the road. -
The Grey Rocks Conservation Center is the new home of the Newfound Lake Region Association. It was unveiled to community members last Thursday. -
Just about half of the hudsonia-silverling plant community sites along the Saco River have disappeared in the last several decades, likely because of climate change, say two state botanists. -
By Friday, real-feel temperatures in Southern New Hampshire could reach 100 degrees. But the heat won't linger long, as a cold front will knock temperatures back down by the weekend. -
The state is on track for another year of many cyanobacteria blooms, with over 50 blooms already reported. -
Since 2023, the state has focused on increasing awareness and funding mitigation projects through its cyanobacteria mitigation fund. But the money is now running dry, and the future of other water bodies in the state threatened by blooms remains uncertain. -
The amicus brief, filed by the Conservation Law Foundation on behalf of almost 20 community organizations and local governments, including one in New Hampshire, urges the Environmental Protection Agency to release grant money that was abruptly terminated this spring. -
The Rural Energy for America Program has closed two of its four application windows this year. The grants can help farmers with things like installing solar or making energy efficiency upgrades. -
This week, farmers in New Hampshire took to the State House to call out precarious farming conditions, following recent federal cuts and delays to federal grants which helped support small farmers.
