Colin Woodard is the Press Herald’s State and National Affairs Writer, and is often at work on large investigative projects. Born in Waterville and raised in western Maine, he was a foreign correspondent for two decades, reported from more than fifty countries on all seven continents, and witnessed the collapse of communism and its bloody aftermath in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He’s written five books, including histories of Maine (The Lobster Coast), North America’s rival regional cultures (American Nations) and the Golden Age Pirates (Republic of Pirates), which was turned into a quickly forgotten NBC mini-series starring John Malkovich as Blackbeard. Since joining the Press Herald in 2012, he’s won a George Polk Award and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. He used to be an avid sailor and SCUBA diver, but with small kids at home, his hobbies now include sleeping and picking up toys.
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PublishedNovember 22, 2015
Passamaquoddy tribe has entered a new chapter of chaos
Accusations fly following the chief’s suspension and his attempt to suspend the vice chief.
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PublishedNovember 9, 2015
Canada’s new government removes muzzles from government scientists
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Cabinet reverses his predecessor’s controversial communications policies.
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PublishedOctober 30, 2015
Maine isn’t doing enough to protect Gulf from effects of climate change
Some say the state needs more funding to collect data, monitor waterways and assess the impact of acidification.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2015
Study: Climate change in Gulf of Maine is responsible for cod’s failure to recover
A study by three research institutions concludes that warming-related stresses have hampered the species’ ability to recover.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2015
Shellfish can’t keep up with shifting ocean chemistry
Some native species simply won’t survive the changes in water chemistry that are on the horizon, researchers say.
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PublishedOctober 28, 2015
Invasive species exploit a warming Gulf of Maine, sometimes with destructive results
Bringing promise and problems, new species throw the evolving coastal waters into an unpredictable state of flux.
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PublishedOctober 27, 2015
Gulf of Maine’s cold-craving marine species forced to retreat to deeper waters
Cod, shrimp, salmon stocks have already been affected, while still-plentiful lobster have exhibited a dramatic geographic shift northward.
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PublishedOctober 26, 2015
As Gulf of Maine warms, puffins recast as canaries in a coal mine
Story by Colin Woodard/ Staff Writer Photos by Gregory Rec/ Staff Photographer EASTERN EGG ROCK T he puffins are having a better year. On a late June day, the adults are landing on the rocky shore of this 7-acre bird sanctuary in flights of three or four, their bright red and yellow beaks stuffed with […]
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PublishedOctober 25, 2015
Big changes are occurring in one of the fastest-warming spots on Earth
YARMOUTH BAR, Nova Scotia S andwiched on a narrow sandbar between Yarmouth’s harbor and the open Gulf of Maine, the fishermen of Yarmouth Bar have long struggled to keep the sea at bay. Nineteenth-century storms threatened to sweep the whole place away, leaving Yarmouth proper’s harbor more open to the elements, prompting the province to […]
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2015
Fed up with EPA, LePage retaliates with threat
Citing ‘overreach’ in regulating tribal waters, he contemplates an unprecedented step: yielding the state’s Clean Water Act powers.
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