John Sinton News Today

We are locked in a war to protect the Connecticut River at Turners Falls, and I applaud the decision of the Connecticut River Conservancy’s refusal to sign the proposed agreement to relicense FirstLight’s Northfield and Turners Falls hydro projects....

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part essay about American eels; the first was published on Saturday, April 9. Nehoumo is the Abenaki name for this eel.Eels such as Nehoumo, our Connecticut River eel, live in all the countries that border...

Oh, what a sorry state of affairs the Northampton Arts Council has left us with. Really, the council should be embarrassed with their apologies and demands and bickering.I am an old white man, a Jew, and a writer and lover of this place. I used to be...

I write in full support of Michael Quinlan for at-large council member. I’ve known Q for 20 years, and he’s been a credit to the community that whole time as a public official, a school coach, a supporter of sensible reform, and an honest man. He’s...

New techniques allowed geologists to show that a volcano named Kaena was separate from its known siblings, and the first to erupt on what is now Oahu.

John Sinton’s Sept. 24 piece, “Salmon story: Squeezed out by dams” reminded me of old generals still arguing their last, lost war — claiming they’d won. In truth the 1967 Cooperative Fishery Restoration Program for the Connecticut River Basin should...

Earth Matters: When is a trout a salmon and what difference does it make? — Published: 1/2/2021 1:41:10 PM When I was fly fishing for pink salmon some years ago in the Pacific Northwest, I hooked an enormous steelhead, which is a sea-run rainbow trout. That steelhead was twice the size of the five-pound salmon I’d caught, but I wondered why one was called salmon and the other, trout. How do fish get named? For that matter, what about other animals and plants? The biological sciences emplo...

John Sinton: Happy about Biden’s appointment for Secretary of the Interior  In this March 5, 2020, file photo Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., Native American Caucus co-chair, speaks to reporters about the 2020 Census on Capitol Hill in Washington.   AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Published: 12/21/2020 12:50:19 PM Happy about Biden’s pick for secretary of the interior  I’m very excited that President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., for secretary of the interior. Don’t l...