While not toxic to people or most animals, pesticides to protect spruce and fir trees against budworm could also hurt the caterpillar form of two threatened butterflies. Spraying supporters say plans call for a targeted approach.
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Tracking Maine’s wild mussel beds: Declining or retreating into the deep?
The Gulf of Maine Research Institute would like the public to help hunt for wild mussel beds below the low-tide line.
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Artists use midnight performance to draw attention to rising seas
A group of painters, dancers and sculptors gathered on the Portland waterfront in the middle of the night as an unusually high tide flooded parking lots and piers.
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Peregrine falcons show signs of national decline, but not in Maine
The deadly avian flu killing falcons in other states hasn’t hit here, but biologists still worry about Maine’s peregrine population because it’s so small.
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Go see the alewives as they migrate up Maine rivers — and hurry | Column
The sea-run fish are still making their way to the lakes and ponds where they spawn.
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Falmouth’s Pollinator Parade marks 10 years of making a buzz
Community members celebrated local pollinators with costumes and activities at Gilsland Farm on Saturday.
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Trump administration seeks to expand offshore oil and gas drilling, including in Gulf of Maine
The Department of the Interior also moved to speed up permitting for a range of energy sources, primarily fossil fuels.
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Maine announces record $8M in state climate resilience grants
More than 150 communities across the state are included in the latest round of state climate resilience grants announced by Gov. Janet Mills in Kennebunkport, which was heavily damaged by back-to-back storms in January 2024.
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Healing the Mere Brook waters
For the past few years, I’ve carried with me a quotation given to me by a friend. We were out walking and assessing a stretch of potential conservation land. A brook ran along a gully nearby, and we were wondering about the brook’s work across time, which led, as many brook talks do, to my […]
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Trump administration cut key FEMA grant. What does that mean for Maine projects?
Eighteen resilience projects around the state had their Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities applications terminated with the cancellation of the program and are now seeking alternate funding.