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A ‘natural design’ garden will attract nature to your garden

by Tom Atwell January 17, 2021January 18, 2021

Skip the lawn, and let your garden mimic the natural cycles of wildland.

A group of environmentalists had petitioned the Board of Environmental Protection to put an end to the practice.

by SETH BORENSTEIN January 4, 2021January 4, 2021

The authors say the amount can be delayed if the world quickly stops emitting extra gases.

Over the next few years, solar energy farms will be popping up across Maine, which has no specific rules for where such projects should be sited.

State officials and conservationists want one or more of the Canadian-owned dams removed to let salmon reach the Sandy River.

by Andrew Ross December 6, 2020December 7, 2020

Looking for five Maine books for your culinary reading list? Try our restaurant critic’s “favorite contenders.”

The plan would cost billions of dollars to execute, but state leaders say the cost of doing nothing would be even greater.

by Tom Atwell November 29, 2020November 30, 2020

Replace your lawn with a meadow of native perennials. Then sit back and wait for the birds, bees and butterflies to show up.

by Christine Burns Rudalevige November 29, 2020November 30, 2020

Food manufacturers across the United States are taking food waste and turning it into tasty food – and making re-use a selling point.

by TOM KRISHER November 23, 2020November 23, 2020

General Motors says it will no longer support the Trump administration in legal efforts to end California’s right to set its own clean-air standards.