But conditions in the gulf this summer were unusually cool when compared to recent years, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute said.
Penelope Overton
Staff Writer
Penny Overton is excited to be the Portland Press Herald’s first climate reporter. Since joining the paper in 2016, she has written about Maine’s lobster and cannabis industries, covered state politics and spent a fellowship year exploring the impact of climate change on the lobster fishery with the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team. Before moving to Maine, she has covered politics, environment, casino gambling and tribal issues in Florida, Connecticut, and Arizona. Her favorite assignments allow her to introduce readers to unusual people, cultures, or subjects. When off the clock, Penny is usually getting lost in a new book at a local coffeehouse, watching foreign crime shows or planning her family’s next adventure.
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Contaminated farm in Unity to become PFAS research site
Songbird Farm is one of a growing number of farms found to be contaminated with so-called forever chemicals from sludge fertilizer spread on fields, once a common, state-sanctioned practice.
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Lawmakers hear how other states are catching up to Maine on PFAS regulation
Thirty-three states have introduced about 200 new PFAS policies or laws this year alone.
Posted inLocal & State, Uncategorized
Maine awards $2.4 million in climate grants to 53 communities
The funding was announced at a meeting of the Maine Climate Council, which is resuming its work amid growing urgency to reduce carbon emissions and prepare for warming impacts.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Kelp connection: Maine studies seaweed’s power to slow climate change
While Maine already measures the green carbon storage capacity of its forests, it is one of the first states to consider the potential seaweed has to store carbon when it breaks apart and falls to the ocean floor.
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Effort to save right whales gets $82 million federal grant
Biden administration officials say the investment in new and emerging technologies represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to protect the species.
Posted inLocal & State, Outdoors
Maine gets $1 million in grants to create new hiking trails
The projects receiving funding include new trail networks in Windham and New Gloucester.
Posted inLocal & State, Schools and Education
Colby College professor studying how wildfire smoke fuels climate change
Assistant chemistry professor Greg Drozd says it’s clear there is a feedback loop – climate change leading to more wildfires and wildfires leading to more warming – and is trying to determine the magnitude of the effect.
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Erosion on Chebeague Island seen as warning to other coastal communities
Multiple sites are being monitored along Maine’s southern coast, but an intertidal nature preserve on Chebeague Island has changed most of all.
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Pro-wind power groups urge Mills to give tribes a place at the table
Environmental and labor officials ask the administration to do more to include the Wabanaki tribes of Maine in offshore wind talks.