environment
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PublishedJuly 17, 2024
Midcoast artists reckon with climate change
Saving the plant has become a topic of creative debate.
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PublishedJuly 16, 2024
Vulnerable Maine forests get boost against nonnative insects with pest predictor tool
A University of Maine researcher has led the effort to create a tool that may predict the next species to become a pest before it arrives in Maine.
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PublishedJuly 15, 2024
Midcoast scientists team up to save marsh habitats
Rising sea levels bring tides that threaten coastal birds' extinction. Maine scientists have teamed up to create more resilient marsh systems, and the Midcoast is spearheading the movement.
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PublishedJuly 15, 2024
What Maine can learn from Wabanaki environmental wisdom
Science is designed to be indifferent to values, but Indigenous knowledge seeks to reinsert them.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2024
Proposed offshore wind port on Sears Island raises new conflicts for coastal Mainers, environmental activists
Residents concerned about both climate change and preservation are conflicted over plans for a facility on Sears Island that could be key to launching Maine's offshore wind industry.
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PublishedJuly 11, 2024
Pilot program will pay Maine’s big forest owners to increase carbon storage
The foundation estimates the 12,000 enrolled acres have the potential to store an additional 250,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide through the adoption of climate-smart practices.
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PublishedJuly 10, 2024
South Portland and Portland downtowns are Maine’s hottest ‘heat islands’
Find out which Maine neighborhoods amplify rising temperatures the most, and what can be done about it.
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PublishedJuly 3, 2024
A new Midcoast PFAS lab enters the fray
With PFAS regulations tightening, a new state-certified lab has entered the chat. The goal? To help fill gaps in local knowledge and halt “forever chemicals” in their tracks.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2024
Hemlock woolly adelgid meets its foe
Local land trusts team up to help save the hemlock trees in the Midcoast.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2024
Volume of Maine’s storm and sewage overflows more than doubled in 2023
Heavy rains coming in back-to-back storms, sometimes when the ground was frozen, contributed to high levels of untreated storm and sewer water being washed in Maine's rivers and bays last year, resulting in shellfish bed and beach closures.
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