Other factors have contributed to the die-off, including drought, forest fires and logging that deprives the primates of water, shade and the fruit they eat.
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Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Gov. Mills to create commission to prepare Maine for more battering storms
Mills will sign an executive order Tuesday to create the commission in the wake of an extremely warm and stormy winter.
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Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
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.
Posted inHealth, Local & State, News
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.
Posted inLocal & State, Outdoors
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.
Posted inNation & World
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.
Posted inKennebunk Post
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.
Posted inNation & World, News
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.’
Posted inLocal & State, Schools and Education
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.
Posted inOpinion
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.