Mara Hoplamazian
Reporter, Climate ChangeMy mission is to bring listeners directly to the people and places experiencing and responding to climate change in New Hampshire. I aim to use sounds, scenes, and clear, simple explanations of complex science and history to tell stories about how Granite Staters are managing ecological and social transitions that come with climate change. I also report on how people in positions of power are responding to our warmer, wetter state, and explain the forces limiting and driving mitigation and adaptation.
Please get in touch with story ideas or questions about climate change in New Hampshire. mhoplamazian@nhpr.org.
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Nuclear power faced major opposition in New Hampshire in the 1970s. Half a century later, Ayotte wants to make the state the face of nuclear innovation. -
The trail serves as a starting point for a popular hike, the Pemigewasset Loop. It was originally damaged during Hurricane Irene. -
With warming winters, conditions for outdoor hockey are becoming more uncertain. But tournament organizers say they’re hoping for years of solid ice to come. -
Families in Londonderry are still using bottled water. That could change soon, with new plans to expand public connections. -
When we’ve been exposed to something that could harm us, what are we supposed to do — as regulators, as doctors, as company executives, or as people just trying to live our lives? -
Former workers at Saint-Gobain’s New Hampshire plant share what they did — and didn’t — know about PFOA and its potential health effects. And how the chemical industry has worked to sow doubt to its own benefit. -
We go back in time to Hoosick Falls, New York where a man looks for answers after his father dies of cancer following his retirement from the local Saint-Gobain plant. What he finds changes the course of this whole story: a remarkable kind of chemical once used to help make the Atom Bomb that manufacturers knew could be dangerous for decades. -
A New Hampshire town finds out its water has been contaminated by a “forever chemical.” The source appears to be the nearby Saint-Gobain plant. Officials say the potential health effects are unclear, but most people can still drink the water. One resident doesn’t buy it and goes down a research rabbit hole. She soon learns all this has happened before. -
New Hampshire’s Attorney General says the agreement represents the largest fine over solid waste issues in state history. -
The Emergency Drought Assistance Program is available to help lower-income households manage the expenses associated with dry wells.
