climate change
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PublishedMay 19, 2024
Sears Island has staved off industrialization for decades. Now it may become Maine’s wind port.
Even environmentalists disagree over whether the state's largest uninhabited island is an ideal site for Maine to stake a claim in the offshore wind industry. Many say Mack Point's the better choice.
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PublishedMay 17, 2024
Maine is playing ‘catch-up’ to prepare for health impacts of climate change
That's the message the Maine Climate Council hears during the first of 3 scientific briefings geared toward updating the state's climate action plan by the end of the year.
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PublishedMay 16, 2024
A remote forest thrives, thanks to woodswomen
The team behind a 180-acre community woodland near Brownville in Piscataquis County brings a collaborative, relationship-based approach to how it manages the land. The female-centric collective may be entirely accidental, but its focus on empowerment may be crucial to adapting to climate change.
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PublishedMay 15, 2024
A mountainous country loses its last glacier
The demise of La Corona, downgraded to an ice field after shrinking to less than 5 acres, makes Venezuela the first nation in the Andes range without a glacier.
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PublishedMay 14, 2024
Kennebunk High School students tackle the changing climate in the Gulf of Maine
A symposium on May 9 highlighted students' efforts to research and combat climate change.
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PublishedMay 11, 2024
Another threat to bees: Climate change-fueled rising temperatures
When things get too hot, bumblebees use their wings as fans. But the insects’ best attempts to cool off could fail as air and soil temperatures rise, the researchers write, warning that 'heat stress may be lethal even if slightly elevated above optimum.'
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PublishedMay 7, 2024
Students to help Casco Bay communities plan for a warmer, wetter future
The students will be asked to research and design novel ways of living and working in Portland, South Portland and the Casco Bay islands as the climate changes.
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PublishedMay 2, 2024
Opinion: Maine needs to get serious about addressing food waste
It's hard to accept we’re wasting so much food when so many people are struggling with hunger. A proven solution beckons.
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PublishedApril 30, 2024
Climate change is rarely mentioned in top-rated films of the last decade
A new report co-authored by a Colby College professor includes a climate scorecard for movies that found only about 1 in 10 of the last decade's top films even mention the topic.
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PublishedApril 30, 2024
Bath storm recovery panel, delayed by nor’easter, finally meets
The panel, which was delayed by severe weather in early April, finally met in Bath to discuss how waterfront communities are recovering after the January storms — and others that followed.
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