If global efforts to curb climate change fail, the impact rises to two-third melt.
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Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
Mills nominates outdoorsman to Board of Environmental Protection
Robert Duchesne, a former 6-term Democratic lawmaker from Hudson, is an outdoor columnist and registered Maine Guide who chaired the environmental and fish and wildlife committees during his legislative tenure.
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Posted inOutdoors, Sports
Birding: Christmas count recap No. 3
The birds are accounted for, and for birders, the holiday season is officially over.
Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes, Source
Summer salads may get all the love, but Maine’s (long) winter has something to offer
Take at least one root vegetable and try techniques from raw to roasted.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener, Source
Falling on the ice is bad for you. But ice-melting salt is bad for your garden.
Here’s how to balance two opposing needs.
Posted inOutdoors, Sports
Birding: No partridges in pear trees, but plenty of other birds in Maine’s annual Christmas Count
The coastal area counts range from grackles to goldeneyes, from wrens to warblers
Posted inNation & World
Northeast states target transportation emissions
Nine states and Washington, D.C., commit to a ‘RGGI redux’ and are hopeful that New York and Maine will join the group.
Posted inFood & Dining
Mainers take to ‘anxiety baking’ to cope in uncertain times
With bad news coming from seemingly every corner – Washington, Wall Street, the environment – some breadmaking, cooking and consuming food is in order.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener, Source
When nothing else grows, seed catalogs sprout
Our columnist gives the highlights of several local ones.
Posted inNation & World
Trash-collecting boom breaks in Pacific Ocean, will return to land for repair
The inventor says the problem was not unexpected, and that the 2,000-foot-long device eventually will resume its task of shrinking an island of floating plastic.