Jennifer Ahrens
Producer, Morning EditionJennifer Ahrens is a producer for Morning Edition. She spent 20+ years producing TV shows for CNN and ESPN. She joined Connecticut Public Media because it lets her report on her two passions, nature and animals.
She’s a S.I. Newhouse alum and cannot imagine living anywhere but the Northeast. After living in Atlanta for several years, she realized a year without four seasons is a bore.
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“If you're seeing dead geese, if you're seeing dead ducks, if it's near open water, the odds are likely it probably is avian influenza,” DEEP Wildlife Division Director Jenny Dickson said. -
Connecticut's Royal Charter of 1662 recently underwent a six month conservation treatment and will be on display for one day on Feb. 4, 2025. -
Preliminary tests have detected bird flu in a backyard flock in New Haven County. The announcement follows another backyard flock in New London County that tested positive for the disease on Jan. 15. Here's what to know. -
Coyotes mate during the winter months. That increases the chances of dangerous run-ins with dogs and cats. -
Twenty first graders and six school employees died in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012. -
A disappearing marsh at Rocky Neck State Park in East Lyme, Connecticut, is receiving a $4 million federal grant to search for solutions and save it. -
Milford Point saw a record number of piping plovers fledge in the summer of 2024. The shore bird is a federally threatened species. -
An annual acorn count helps scientists paint a picture of how Connecticut trees are responding to stresses from defoliation and disease. -
A Connecticut scientist has been releasing tiny Japanese beetles for nearly 30 years to combat the hemlock woolly adelgid. -
Two places in Connecticut, Hartford and New Haven, beat New York City in U.S News and World Report’s ranking of the 25 most expensive places to live.
