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Environment

  • Uninhabitable
    August 21

    Climate change drives writer from skeptic to alarmist

    It’s as if … we have locked ourselves into “a running car in a sealed garage.”

    Dana Wilde

    Media

  • Rock Bound header
    August 21

    You don’t need a weatherman to know which way…

    If we didn’t cut firewood and grow gardens in summer, we’d freeze and starve in January.

    Tom Groening

    Media

  • The Eastern Seaboard from space
    August 20

    Massive freshwater aquifer may lie off Atlantic Seaboard

    Salinity would be low enough for it to be used for the production of some livestock…

    Craig Idlebrook

    Media

  • A view of the Spruce Head Fisherman’s Co-op in South Thomaston. The co-op will benefit from funding from the Land for Maine’s Future Program.
    August 14

    Sustaining Maine's working waterfront

    The Land for Maine’s Future Board has selected six projects that will help protect and sustain Maine’s working waterfront.

    Staff Writer

    Media

  • Christening 'Headmaster'
    August 14

    'Headmaster' educates boaters on keeping a clean bay

    More than 100 people gathered June 10 on Portland’s waterfront to cheer the christening and launch of the Friends of Casco Bay’s 26-foot pump-out boat

    Media

  • Fine Sand Beach on Swan's Island
    August 14

    Has Maine’s high court issued a public invitation to the beach?

    Over the course of the last 30 years, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (also known as the Law Court) has issued a series of legal opinions about the extent of public rights in the intertidal zone.

    Media

  • West Quoddy Head Light in Lubec.
    August 13

    ​A coastal conundrum—taxes or tourism?

    In just ten years, Acadia’s visitation has grown by 59 percent, a trend which has led one nonprofit to offer Downeast tourists an alternative destination—Lubec.

    Media

  • A beach in East Blue Hill at low tide.
    August 7

    Beaches are soft frontline in the climate change war

    By 2045, some 300,000 homes and commercial properties will see “flooding on a chronic basis.”

    Tom Groening

    Media

  • Launching airboat
    August 7

    Airboats find a home in Maine waters

    Long a staple for the swamps of the South, airboats are now finding their way into Maine waters.

    Media

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