PORTSMOUTH---- Landscape historian Lucinda Brockway will present “New England Gardens: Lost, Found, and Rediscovered,” an entertaining and informative look at the way New Englanders have fashioned ...

Native North Americans did not make large-scale changes to their environment in coastal New England in the 14,000 years they lived there before the Europeans arrived, a study has found. In recent ...

Bryan Shuman, a professor in UW’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, collects a sediment sample from Green Pond in central Massachusetts. Shuman was part of a study that shows forest adaptation in ...

As a result of historical and current human impacts on natural ecosystems worldwide, most modern landscapes involve an element of cultural influence. In New England, for example, although the ...

The forests of southern New England are being chopped down to make room for subdivisions, strip malls and highways, and this loss of natural landscape has been particularly rapid in the last 30 years, ...

An interpretive sign stands at the edge of the Montague Plains Wildlife Management Area, a 1,500-acre state conservation property in central Massachusetts. It explains the site's open land vegetation ...

"Abandoned New England focuses on five modern American visual artists and poets - Winslow Homer, Robert Frost, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, and Elizabeth Bishop - who portrayed the stark traditional ...