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Sophomore William Riley and junior Chris Pare, co-presidents of the Lakes Region school’s outdoors club, say they’ve learned a fair amount in school and online about climate change globally but they ve heard less about how New Hampshire is changing.
“How is that going to impact, say, the ski season in New Hampshire and your everyday life?” Pare said. “Rather than it being something that’s kind of just there and you’re not really personally seeing those impacts.”
That shift is the focus of the summit he and Riley organized, on their own time – not for a class or grade. The virtual event will include New Hampshire state climatologist Mary Stampone and other researchers from Plymouth State and the University of New Hampshire who are focused on lakes, soil, snow and adaptation issues.
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Portsmouth Herald
KENNEBUNK, Maine Kennebunk High School has announced the students who are in the Top 10% for the Class of 2021. Commencement ceremonies for the Class of 2021 will take place on Sunday, June 6 at 10 a.m. at the Kennebunk High School field.
Nicholas Albaum, Valedictorian
Nicholas Albaum of Kennebunk, the son of Dr. Tammi Bittler and Dr. Michael Albaum, is the valedictorian of his class. He is a National Merit Scholarship Finalist, and was a
member of the National Honor Society. He was also a member of Kennebunk Swim and Dive (captain), Ultimate Frisbee Team (captain), and a runner on the cross country team. He will be attending Brown University to study biochemistry and to continue playing ultimate frisbee.
Toxic man-made chemicals that end up in the environment highlight regulation challenges
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have conducted two of the first studies in New England to collectively show that toxic man-made chemicals called PFAS (per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances), found in everything from rugs to product packaging, end up in the environment differently after being processed through wastewater treatment facilities making it more challenging to set acceptable screening levels.
PFAS are persistent substances that are not easily broken down and have been linked to adverse health effects. They are found in a wide variety of industrial, commercial and medicinal products and can end up in the body, human waste and the environment. If not managed correctly, they can be further distributed around the environment in landfills, waterways and even stabilized biosolids could be applied to agricultural fields as fertilizers.