Towns that have implemented pay-as-you-throw and other user fee-based pricing policies to reduce municipal solid waste have seen a substantial reduction in trash disposal rates, some by more than 50 percent, according to new research from the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire.

Area residents soon will enjoy a tasty sour fall beer made of kiwiberries that was brewed at the University of New Hampshire thanks to a new partnership between researchers with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station and the university’s new brewing science program.

This material is based upon work that is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under award numbers 233561 and 1017760.  For more information on the research project, visit www.unh.edu/halelab/kiwiberry/.

A long-time New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station researcher and members of his laboratory recently were recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency for their significant contributions and collaborative efforts to address cyanobacteria issues in New England for more than three decades.

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Over the last 20 years, Maine’s forests have become younger and less dense. As a result, forests are not providing the most climate benefits that they could through carbon sequestration and storage. However, more carbon could be stored over the next 100 years with less frequent harvests of smaller amounts of wood from each acre, according to new research from the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire.

The NH Business Review reports on the New Hampshire Commission to Study School Funding and its work on the final report due to the NH Legislature and governor on Dec. 1. The Commission, which is being supported by a team at the Carsey School of Public Policy, is identifying a more equitable public school-funding model for the state and has been working on this initiative since January 2020.

Cara Cargill, a NH Listens Fellow, recently joined Lizzie Post, co-president of the etiquette advice website "The Emily Post," for a discussion on how to navigate holiday conversations and ways that the public can give back to their community. 

Research by Jess Carson, research assistant professor at the Carsey School, and Marybeth Mattingly, policy fellow at the Carsey School, show that the pandemic has proven just how fragile the nation’s early childhood care system is. The central problems, according to Carson and Mattingly, are that child care providers don’t generate enough revenue to pay staff members well, making it difficult to find employees; simultaneously, care is too costly for many families to afford.