Paying a Price to Conserve Energy

written for The New York Times MARGARET DEEGAN SLYWKA knows painfully well what happened 33 years ago, the last time the clocks changed to daylight saving time in the winter. Then a 14-year-old sophomore living in Seymour, Conn., she was hit by a car while walking to...

Does a Bit of Africa Sit in Deep River?

written for The New York Times WHEN it comes to geographical lessons, Connecticut has two that it doesn’t share with just anybody. Tourists often visit Dinosaur State Park, a spot where fossilized dinosaur footprints are surrounded by an arena. And they know...
A Frenzy for Glass Eels

A Frenzy for Glass Eels

Glass eels, or elvers, from a seafood retailer’s website written for The Day In the middle of the night in Millville, N.J., someone stole a van‰ÛÓnot for the van, but for the tanks stashed in back, which were set up to hold thousands of baby American eels. When...

A 1998 Warning About Polar Bears

written for The Day Mystic—The top polar bear expert in North America told an audience of scientists that global warming is hurting polar bears in western Hudson Bay. The 1,000-pound bears rely on a window of several weeks in the early spring to lumber across the ice...