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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Rather than getting an early start on lawn care at the first hint of spring, experts say consider waiting until the weather gets consistently warmer before cleaning up leaves and cutting back last year's plants. -
“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.
