New Hampshire and its counties may soon be barred from enrolling publicly owned lands in carbon sequestration programs. “We don’t see sequestration as a traditional use,” said Rep. Mike Ouellet, a Colebrook Republican, at a hearing before the House Committee on Municipal and County Government on Tuesday. The committee later voted, 13-1, to recommend passage […]

Life-sustaining groundwater isn’t so far beneath our shoes, but knowledge about it, and the underground world it flows through, can feel far away. In some cases, “we know more about distant star systems than we know about the interior of our own planet,” said Mike Howley, a senior geoscientist with the New Hampshire Geological Survey, […]