A grand opening will be held June 3 at the library, where residents can borrow electric lawn mowers, hedge clippers and leaf blowers.
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Cumberland library director’s side gig is digs
Thomas Bennett is studying shell middens to highlight the impact of climate change on Casco Bay.
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Extreme weather caused 2 million deaths, $4 trillion in losses over last 50 years, UN says
The World Meteorological Organization said most of the economic damage between 1970 and 2021 came in the U.S. – totaling $1.7 trillion – but 9 in 10 deaths worldwide took place in developing countries.
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Breakthrough proposal would aid drought-stricken Colorado River as 3 Western states offer cuts
Arizona, California and Nevada on Monday proposed a deal to significantly cut their water use from the Colorado River over the next 3 years.
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Commentary: The climate crisis is Maine’s storm of the century
But with the Mills administration’s four-year climate plan and much-needed support at the federal level, we’re ready to meet this moment.
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Maine businesses brainstorm how to deal with climate change as an economic issue
Over 400 businesspeople and 60 presenters gathered in Augusta to share perspectives and practices on dealing with Earth’s warming.
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Commentary: Multibillion-dollar natural disasters are the new normal
The tab for rebuilding following 18 weather calamities reached $175 billion in 2022. And that wasn’t the most expensive year.
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The likelihood that Earth briefly hits key warming threshold grows bigger and closer, UN forecasts
The United Nations’ weather agency says there’s a two-out-of-three chance that the world will reach the internationally accepted global temperature threshold for limiting the worst effects of climate change sometime in the next five years.
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The terrors of climate change are front and center in ‘Blue Skies’
In this dark family drama, catastrophe looms large.
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In major climate step, EPA proposes first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants
A new rule could force power plants to capture smokestack emissions using a technology that has long been promised but is not in widespread use in the U.S.