Flash flooding can happen in both urban and rural areas, with deadly results in either setting.
Many trees were still green in Maine’s Grafton Notch State Park on Oct. 1, 2021, when the area’s foliage is typically near peak color.
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Warm autumn weather has produced dull leaf colors across the eastern US this year, but climate change isn’t the only way that humans have altered trees’ fall displays.
‘Going To Church,’ N.C. Wyeth (1941).
Archival photograph, Brandywine River Museum library, Edward J. S. Seal Collection.
Evidence shows Native Americans in New England lived lightly on the land for thousands of years. It wasn’t until Europeans arrived that the landscape experienced major human impacts.
Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women.
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Protecting land from being developed intuitively may seem like a drag on local economies, but research in New England finds that it has the opposite effect.
Project Oceanology class retrieves a bottom trawl at the mouth of the Thames River.
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For decades, New England students took field trips out into the Long Island Sound. Their data show how quickly the sound is warming, leading to fewer American lobster, rock crab and winter flounder.
Valero’s Benicia Refinery, less than 40 miles from San Francisco.
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As the Joyce saga continued to suck political oxygen in the wake of Sunday’s TV interview with Joyce and partner Vikki Campion, he rejected speculation that he might not contest his New England seat.
Barnaby Joyce announces he will stand down as deputy prime minister and leader of the National Party.
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At a Nationals meeting on Monday morning, Barnaby Joyce will resign as Nationals leader and deputy prime minister, but will stay on as the member for New England.
Malcolm Turnbull’s approach went from initially staying solid with Barnaby Joyce by saying as little as possible to letting him have it with both barrels.
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Winemakers call the ecological factors that define their product terroir. By redefining that idea to include history and social ties, New England craft brewers have grown an industry with local roots.
Christopher Pyne announces that the government will cancel next week’s House of Representatives sitting.
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Peter C. Mancall, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The Pilgrims were thankful for finally being able to vanquish Thomas Morton and Ferdinando Gorges, who spent years trying to undermine the legal basis for settlements in Massachusetts and beyond.
The stakes for the Nationals in the seat of New England are extraordinarily high.
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Apart from the main game, watch for the drawcard contests on Saturday night. Among them will be the performance of the Nick Xenophon Team (NXT), the battles in the Nationals’ seats of New England and Cowper…
Barnaby Joyce pats a wooden wombat before starting an election address at the National Press Club on Wednesday.
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Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has left the way open for a possible change of portfolio in a re-elected Turnbull government – assuming he holds his seat.
Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy and Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Professor of Kinesiology, Affiliate Professor of History, Director of Research and Educational Programs for the Penn State Center for the Study of Sport in Society, Penn State