climate change
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PublishedSeptember 3, 2023
Home insurers cut natural disasters from policies as climate risks grow
Major insurers say they will cut out damage caused by hurricanes, wind, and hail from policies underwriting property along coastlines and in wildfire country, according to a voluntary survey conducted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
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PublishedSeptember 3, 2023
‘Reading the Glass’ supplies a gripping, expert account of life at sea
On a Pacific training voyage, a Maine Maritime Academy captain – and engaging writer – teaches trainees about life on board ship and about confronting ever more dangerous, unpredictable weather.
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PublishedAugust 29, 2023
Maine’s puffin colonies recovering in the face of climate change
Scientists who monitor seabirds said Atlantic puffins had their second consecutive rebound year for fledging chicks after suffering a bad 2021.
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PublishedAugust 28, 2023
Maine Voices: What about the many unknowns facing Pine Tree Power?
The economic forecasting makes big claims while failing to take into account two very major variables.
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PublishedAugust 28, 2023
Letter to the editor: Yes, Mainers are ready to drive electric – and for good reason
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PublishedAugust 27, 2023
Insight: One thing we know about the Maui wildfires: Those most responsible won’t pay a cent
And it’s you and I and the struggling citizens of Maui who are left to pick up the ever-mounting bill for climate disasters. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2023
Grants for Kennebago preservation project on hold over lack of public access
The Rangeley Heritage Land Trust will have two years to secure deeded public access or it will lose $1.7 million to protect thousands of acres along the Kennebago River.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2023
Record sea ice melt in Antarctica doomed thousands of penguin chicks to a watery grave
Using satellite imagery, researchers found that four of five observed emperor penguin colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea region experienced 'catastrophic breeding failure,' meaning that no chicks born in 2022 are believed to have survived.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2023
Massive algae bloom in Gulf of Maine mystifies, worries scientists
Researchers say this kind of algae does not produce harmful toxins, but they worry its eventual die-off could lead to low oxygen levels that have preceded large fish and shellfish kills in other areas.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2023
Research at Baxter seeks to identify plants that will adapt to global warming
Scientists say sediment taken from below Chimney Pond, and other Alpine lakes in the Northeast, will yield a fossil record of the plants – those that have died out and those that have survived – since the last ice age.
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