Fred Bever
Fred Bever joins NHPR with an extensive reporting background for public radio and other media. Bever has provided live and taped content for NPR, the BBC, WBUR in Boston and New England Public Radio. His most prominent work was his live on-scene coverage of the hunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects and its aftermath.
Fred has worked as News Director at New England Public Radio, Chief Political Correspondent for Maine Public Broadcasting Network, and as a freelancer for myriad outlets covering politics, public affairs, business, energy and science.
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More Americans are wearing safety helmets when they ski or snowboard. The helmets prove their worth in preventing relatively minor injuries, and may help to reduce the severity of brain injuries.
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Women play an outsized role in the underground firearms marketplace. Often they handle illegal guns that are not for for their own use, but for men close to them. One Boston program is campaigning against gun violence, drawing connections between "crime guns" and domestic violence. -
Parts of the U.S. and Canada have seen a rapid decline in moose populations that may be linked to climate change. And, scientists and hunters warn, those declines have often been accompanied by a surge of infestations of the winter tick. -
The windswept island about 6 miles off the coast was a haven for a hugely diverse bird population until fishermen decimated the birds' ranks. Puffins have been successfully reintroduced to Eastern Egg Rock, but warming ocean waters may be threatening their ability to survive.
