A plan to remove tide gates in Addison is prompting residents to ask what restoration means in a landscape that has been continuously altered by humans.
Nita Lelyveld
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Digging ditches, building mounds: Protecting marshes can be very hands-on
In Frenchman Bay, an effort is being made to protect the habit for birds, mound by mound.
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In Scarborough, development and sea level rise threaten a beloved marsh
Conservation groups are racing to save Maine’s largest salt marsh from rising seas, development and polluted runoff.
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As the climate changes, some Maine marshes will migrate inland – if there’s room for them
A ghost forest in Wells indicates that rising ocean waters are killing trees that can’t tolerate the inundation or the salt.
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Maine’s salt marshes are at risk of disappearing, from rising sea levels and much more
A University of Maine analysis suggests a significant portion of them could be gone by the end of the century, without a lot of human intervention.
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Lewiston lives lost: Stories of the 18 people killed in the mass shooting
The victims at Just-in-Time Recreation and Schemengees Bar & Grille ranged in age from 14 to 76. They will forever be associated with the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history. But they had rich lives worth remembering apart from that terrible night.
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6 takeaways from our ‘Long Way Home’ series
In “Long Way Home,” the Portland Press Herald told the story of the large influx of asylum seekers arriving in Maine in recent years. Reporters and photographers spent several months learning why people fled their homelands – mostly in Central Africa – and the arduous journeys they made to Maine, many thousands of miles from […]
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Heading into a new year, changed but hopeful
Whether they’ll start 2023 with resolutions or not, the Mainers we spoke to have hopes for what comes next.
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Federal recovery money already committed to fighting homelessness and the housing crisis in Maine
Locally, some money will go to new shelters in Portland and Brunswick and to study the need for emergency shelter and other services in the Lakes Region.
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