Climate change
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PublishedAugust 28, 2023
Maine Voices: What about the many unknowns facing Pine Tree Power?
The economic forecasting makes big claims while failing to take into account two very major variables.
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PublishedAugust 28, 2023
Letter to the editor: Yes, Mainers are ready to drive electric – and for good reason
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PublishedAugust 27, 2023
Insight: One thing we know about the Maui wildfires: Those most responsible won’t pay a cent
And it’s you and I and the struggling citizens of Maui who are left to pick up the ever-mounting bill for climate disasters. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2023
Grants for Kennebago preservation project on hold over lack of public access
The Rangeley Heritage Land Trust will have two years to secure deeded public access or it will lose $1.7 million to protect thousands of acres along the Kennebago River.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2023
Record sea ice melt in Antarctica doomed thousands of penguin chicks to a watery grave
Using satellite imagery, researchers found that four of five observed emperor penguin colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea region experienced 'catastrophic breeding failure,' meaning that no chicks born in 2022 are believed to have survived.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2023
Massive algae bloom in Gulf of Maine mystifies, worries scientists
Researchers say this kind of algae does not produce harmful toxins, but they worry its eventual die-off could lead to low oxygen levels that have preceded large fish and shellfish kills in other areas.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2023
Research at Baxter seeks to identify plants that will adapt to global warming
Scientists say sediment taken from below Chimney Pond, and other Alpine lakes in the Northeast, will yield a fossil record of the plants – those that have died out and those that have survived – since the last ice age.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2023
Firefighters report more progress against Canadian wildfires and wait for rain
In all, there are 386 fires burning, and 3,500 people fighting the flames that have chased tens of thousands of people from their homes.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2023
Post-Tropical Storm Hilary pushes into Nevada after drenching California
Hilary dropped more than half an average year's worth of rain on some areas, including Palm Springs, which saw more than 3 inches of rain by Sunday evening.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2023
Maine supporters of a right to a clean environment encouraged by Montana ruling
Efforts to add the Pine Tree Amendment to the Maine Constitution are now being led by youth groups.
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