A rare collaboration between The Boston Globe and the Portland Press Herald shows how a small island in Maine is at the center of a worldwide crisis
climate change
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Thousands of tornado survivors in multiple states face weeks without heat or water
Kentucky authorities said the sheer level of destruction was hindering their ability to tally the devastation from Friday night’s storms.
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Maine Voices: Our state’s forests are a vital part of our world’s climate solution
Let’s not dally in our effort to hold on to the highly significant forest here at home – Maine’s North Woods.
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One year in, Maine’s climate plan moving forward, fueled by unexpected federal windfall
Gov. Mills marked the occasion by announcing new initiatives to help towns and cities help meet the Maine Climate Council’s plan and her goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030.
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Maine Voices: CMP’s woes not the only driver in clean-energy project’s defeat
Three of America’s top 12 worst carbon polluters developed a playbook to crush other proposals to meet the existential challenge of our time: climate change.
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University of Maine researchers try producing potato resistant to climate change
Warming temperatures and an extended growing season can lead to quality problems and disease, Gregory Porter, a professor of crop ecology and management, said.
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UMaine-Farmington students block road to protest town’s fossil-fuel emissions
Four University of Maine at Farmington students blocked off Main Street, one of Farmington’s busier roads and thoroughfares, to protest climate change and the town’s fossil fuel emissions. The sit-in ended when police intervened after 15 minutes. The sit-in raised discussion between participants, bystanders and other local activists about the most impactful ways to protest and instigate change.
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Bill Nemitz: My takeaway from COP26? Goodbye, gassy leaf blower
Just home from Glasgow, a young scientist from Freeport sees climate change as a global – and local – challenge.
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California wildfires this year torched thousands of giant sequoia trees
Intense fires that burned hot enough and high enough to kill so many giant sequoias – trees once considered nearly fire-proof – puts an exclamation point on the impact of climate change.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Confessions of a reluctant Question 1 opponent
The retroactivity-focused campaign almost pushed me into voting ‘yes.’ Why didn’t power line backers bring up the climate change implications?