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IT WAS A CRISP OCTOBER AFTERNOON in Hardwick, a hardscrabble town of 2,900 souls in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, and the door to the Civic Standard was wide open. Kids on [...]

We began to worry about the loon in early December. What was it still doing here? For 18 years, we'd watched the loons come and go from the Vermont lake [...]

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT. After months of thin winter air, a warm breath has blown in from somewhere south, thick with moisture, and the land starts to unfold. The maples [...]

Michael Terrien squats in the field and picks a handful of fruit. He crushes it, squeezing the shockingly purple juice into a plastic beaker. He pours a few drops into [...]

FEW PEOPLE in the United States had heard of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)--the high-security biolab in Wuhan, China, that does cutting-edge research on coronaviruses--until mid-April, when the Trump [...]

Wednesdays are supposed to be the slow day at Hill Farmstead, the cult brewery in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, but on a steamy summer day at 11 a.m.--an hour before it [...]

On a wintry Saturday in the Academic Center of Olin College, 16 teams of high school seniors raced to build device that could be lowered from a balcony to scoop [...]

Byline: Rowan Jacobsen For half a year, Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious-disease official, and Kentucky senator and physician Rand Paul have been locked in a battle over whether the [...]

Appledore Island is a glacier-raked lump of granite six miles off the New Hampshire coast. In shape, colon and smell, it resembles a giant oyster shell. When Sam Hayward, who [...]

It took me just five minutes on the ice at Lake Morey, a two-mile jewel set in a ring of Vermont hills near the New Hampshire border, to realize I'd [...]

The day I learned I'd been eating dead flour all my life came last summer when I wandered into my local co-op and picked up a loaf of hearth bread [...]

Fixing the human genome is the easy part. The hard part is knowing when to stop. THE FIRST STEP IS a no-brainer. Say you are one of the tens of [...]

On a gray dawn in October, a half mile off a small Maine island far from shore, Micah Woodcock and I found ourselves bobbing in a rowboat precisely where they [...]

These are the mornings I'll remember. The sky is already lit at 5:00 a.m., the lake like glass. Mist hangs in the hollows on the far shore, ghosted in the [...]

I'm standing on Breezy Hill in the black ink of a Vermont midnight in mid-July, surrounded by savants and telescopes. 'Switching to Mil,' somebody whispers as the barrel of his [...]

Saquish is a long spit of sand and cobble guarding the entrance to Plymouth Bay. It has a few beach houses, marshes and mudflats, and crazy currents. It's also Skip [...]

The road to Scott Farm rises from a strip of Taco Bells and KFCs along T91 in Vermont, quickly turning to dirt as it dives between forested hills. At the [...]

For most of us, the first time is when we re kids. After a full-blown day on the coast, prickly with sunburn, the saline scent of the waves stuck high [...]

The new poster child for climate change had his coming-out party in June 2012, when Petey the puffin chick first went live into thousands of homes and schools all over [...]

EACH SPRING, THE RESEARCH SHIP HENRY B. BIGELOW DRAGS A NET ALONG THE SEAFLOOR IN THE GULF OF MAINE, CATALOGUING THE FISH IT CATCHES. WHAT IT FINDS WILL CHANGE THE [...]

Every fall at Maine's Common Ground Country Fair, the Lollapalooza of sustainable agriculture, John Bunker sets out a display of eccentric apples. Last September, once again, they covered every possible [...]

ROBIN SEELEY SAW them back in the summer of 2008, in Cobscook Bay, a pristine Maine estuary near the Canadian border. 'All of a sudden this small fleet of blue [...]

Byline: Rowan Jacobsen A mysterious ailment of honeybees threatens a trillion-dollar industry and an essential source of nutrition. FOR 3,000 YEARS, FARMERS IN CHINA'S SICHUAN PROVINCE POLLINATED THEIR fruit trees [...]