climate change
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2024
Human evolution may prevent us from solving climate change, UMaine study finds
A new study by an international team led by evolutionary biologist Tim Waring says that humans are good at extracting resources from the Earth but struggle to cooperate on a scale necessary to fight worldwide environmental threats.
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PublishedDecember 31, 2023
Sorta, kinda gardening resolutions for the new year
Don't sweat the small stuff, columnist Tom Atwell vows to himself, but do play a part in fixing the big, ominous environmental picture.
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PublishedDecember 28, 2023
DEP official: Board to consider EV rules even as it urges Legislature to revise regulations
The Board of Environmental Protection delayed a vote on the rules this month, angering climate advocates who say Maine needs to act soon to limit gas-powered cars with their tailpipe emissions.
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PublishedDecember 27, 2023
Maine board wants to hand decision on electric vehicle mandate to Legislature
If lawmakers step in, it will further delay a policy that environmental groups had hoped would already have been decided.
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PublishedDecember 24, 2023
Plant-based food gets seat at U.N. climate summit’s table
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PublishedDecember 23, 2023
Saving animals from extinction is a climate strategy, too
The Biden administration has responded by proposing some new ESA regulations of its own, including one that would allow it to introduce species outside their historic habitats as a way of getting in front of global warming.
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PublishedDecember 22, 2023
White Christmas is becoming more of a dream than a reality in Maine
The state's winters are getting warmer and wetter, and there'll be no white Christmas this year, again.
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PublishedDecember 20, 2023
State environmental board postpones meeting to consider electric vehicle mandates
The massive storm that tore through the state has forced a Maine environmental board to postpone a Thursday meeting that was to consider electric vehicle sales mandates.
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PublishedDecember 19, 2023
Monday’s powerful storm latest example of bad weather made worse by climate change
The unseasonably warm weather that Maine is experiencing due to an increase in heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere gave the wet winter storm its powerful punch, scientists say.
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PublishedDecember 19, 2023
The Conversation: 2023’s extreme storms, heat and wildfires broke records — a scientist explains how global warming fuels climate disasters
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