The United States is poised for the birth of a brand new industry, one that will invest tens of billions of dollars in our economy, reshape our coastal communities, and one that could be one of the sharpest knives in our fight against climate change: offshore wind. Windfall is a special series from Outside/In . This is the third of a three-part series adapted for broadcast on NHPR. Listen to the first and second broadcasts, or explore the full five-part podcast series ..read more

The United States is poised for the birth of a brand new industry, one that will invest tens of billions of dollars in our economy, reshape our coastal communities, and one that could be one of the sharpest knives in our fight against climate change: offshore wind. Windfall is a special series from Outside/In . This is the second of a three-part series airing on NHPR. Part 1 is already available. Part 3 airs next Saturday, July 17th, at 11 am ..read more

Every other Friday on Morning Edition, the Outside/In team answers a question from a listener about the natural world. This week, Jeff from Northwood asks: “What makes laundry smell nice and fresh when you hang it out to dry?” Editor's Note: This edition of Ask Sam first aired in June, 2019. This is an appropriate question to come from New Hampshire, given the state’s ties to the so-called “Right to Dry” campaign, which pushed back against condo associations that prohibited clothes lines because of the impropriety of seeing someone’s skivvies out on the line. But where does that wonderful line ..read more

Watch out for loon chicks if you head out on a boat in New Hampshire in the coming weeks. It's nesting and hatching season for the loons, a protected species, in lakes and fresh waters north and south of the White Mountains. The Loon Preservation Committee, based in Moultonborough, says boat traffic – even non-motorized vessels like kayaks – can put them at risk ..read more

The United States is poised for the birth of a brand new industry, one that will invest tens of billions of dollars in our economy, reshape our coastal communities, and one that could be one of the sharpest knives in our fight against climate change: offshore wind. Windfall is a special series from Outside/In . This is the first of a three-part series airing on NHPR. Part 2 airs next Saturday, July 10th, at 11 am ..read more

On May 21, 2021, Sunderlal Bahuguna passed away from COVID-19 at the age of 94. His passing didn’t make the news in any of the major outlets in the US. But it got extensive coverage in India. Bahugana was the most well-known leader of the Chipko movement in India, an anti-deforestation movement in the Indian Himalayas in the 1970s. Most of the Chipko activists were rural, poor, mostly illiterate women, living subsistence livelihoods. They took on a powerful government forestry department that was increasingly in bed with big private companies and won. The movement is named for an infamous acti ..read more

One day, after a hike up Mt. Lafayette, David Baril posted a photograph to a Facebook hikin group. It seemed pretty benign: just a photograph of an engraved stone he’d found on the summit. But to his surprise, it sparked an internet flame war and raised questions about environmental ethics, aesthetics, and the wilderness of principles of Leave No Trace ..read more

Every other Friday on Morning Edition, the Outside/In team tackles a question from a listener. David from Mont Vernon asks: “How come all wind turbines — onshore and offshore — look the same? They all have three blades. And I’ve certainly seen designs for ones that look like egg-beaters and things that vibrate and all that kind of stuff and I just want to know why are they so boring and unimaginative in their design?” This question is extra pertinent because yesterday on Outside/In we launched a special 5-part series on offshore wind , because we are poised to see a boom in that industry. The ..read more

Federal regulators have signed off on new protections for thousands of square miles of deep-sea corals off New England ..read more

Northern New Hampshire is officially back in a drought, and most of the rest of the state remains abnormally dry as of this week, according to the National Drought Monitor ..read more