After years of promises of new climate funding, the developing world is coming to grips with a disappointing reality: The money still isn’t coming through.
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The Recycle Bin: A look at energy efficiency in personal transportation
Americans use twice the energy per capita to achieve our lifestyles compared to Europeans or Chinese people with the same high-consuming lifestyles. How can we adapt and reduce fossil fuel use in transportation? Significantly changing our behavior is essential to helping create a livable future for our children and other living beings. This column will […]
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Midcoast towns get state grants to counter climate change
Bowdoinham is one of 53 towns across the state to receive a grant aimed at mitigating the impacts of climate change on Maine communities.
Posted inNation & World
Whales and dolphins in American waters are losing food and habitat to climate change, U.S. study says
A first-of-its-kind assessment says whales, dolphins and seals living in U.S. waters face major threats from the warming ocean temperatures, rising sea levels and decreasing sea ice associated with climate change.
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Gulf of Maine logged its 8th-hottest summer on record this year
But conditions in the gulf this summer were unusually cool when compared to recent years, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute said.
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150 dolphins dead in Amazon; scientists blame 102-degree water
The mass die-off of the endangered pink dolphins in Brazil’s Lake Tefé could be linked to climate change and the El Niño phenomenon, they said.
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Climate demonstrators call for L.L. Bean to discourage fossil fuel investment
Demonstrators have been stationed outside the Freeport flagship retail store for weeks, calling for the company to discourage Citibank from investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure or to divest entirely.
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Climate destruction fuels growing sector of the U.S. economy
The overall price tag of global warming has long been the subject of debate. New data from Bloomberg Intelligence has put a number on the cost of burning fossil fuels.
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Maine Voices: Pine Tree Power is the best choice for our state’s climate goals
Approving Question 3 on the November ballot would ensure more responsive and rapid investment in connecting renewable energy sources to the state grid.
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Susana Hancock: Climate action – and the hope it conjures – can be found everywhere
Faced with the specter of the climate crisis, Mainers are getting better at coming together to take a stand against it.