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Decades In The Making: Maine’s I-395/Route 9 Corridor Finally Opens
Q106.5 - Maine
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June 30, 2025
What started as an ambitious and controversial idea in the late 1990s, to make it so you CAN "get there from here," at least when you're talking about connecting downeast Maine to I-395, is finally complete. The Maine DOT opened the I-395/Route 9...
Understanding Indigenous knowledge and land amid the climate crisis
Boise State Public Radio - Idaho
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June 30, 2025
Amid the climate crisis, some Indigenous nations are reclaiming and rejuvenating their land. The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation recently reclaimed a piece of land in Idaho that was the site of a brutal massacre of their people. They are...
Maine’s ocean potential is vast if science leads the conversation
Bangor Daily News - Maine
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June 24, 2025
The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Crystal Canney is executive director and spokesperson for Protect...
What’s at risk for Arctic wildlife if Trump expands oil drilling in the fragile National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska
The Conversation
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June 30, 2025
The largest tract of public land in the United States is a wild expanse of tundra and wetlands stretching across nearly 23 million acres of northern Alaska. It’s called the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, but despite its industrial-sounding...
Maine’s moose population is in trouble. Ticks are to blame.
News Center Maine
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June 23, 2025
PORTLAND, Maine — After the lobster, is there any creature in Maine that’s more iconic, more a part of the state’s identity, than the moose? About 65,000 moose roam the woods and fields and waterways of Maine. No state except Alaska has a larger...
Maine Braces for Extreme Heat Watch with Emergency Cooling Centers Now Available
Pure Oldies 105.5 - Maine
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As temperatures in the State of Maine are projected to reach over 90 degrees on Tuesday and over 80 degrees on Monday and Wednesday, parts of the state are under an Extreme Heat Watch. Cooling centers have begun to open across the state in order...
Maine heat wave incoming: NOAA forecasts hotter than normal summer
Seacoastonline - New Hampshire
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Summer vacation is officially underway, and — while it’s been rainy and cool these past few weeks — the months ahead are gearing up to be hotter than usual, per the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s three-month forecast. That...
'Last of that tribe': GOP's centrist lawmaker opens up about 'extreme climate' in Trump's DC
AlterNet
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June 29, 2025
In her newly released memoir Far From Home: An Alaskan Senator Faces the Extreme Climate of Washington, Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) paints a striking portrait of political survival and ideological isolation, offering a candid reckoning with her...
A Maine-based tofu maker is doubling in size
Bangor Daily News - Maine
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June 29, 2025
A Maine-based tofu manufacturer that has expanded rapidly over the last decade is poised for even more growth as it completes a construction project that will double the size of its factory. After opening in Camden in 2008, Heiwa Tofu moved into...
‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis
The Guardian
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June 29, 2025
Blood-sucking ticks that trigger a bizarre allergy to meat in the people they bite are exploding in number and spreading across the US, to the extent that they could cover the entire eastern half of the country and infect millions of people,...
Warm Summer Nights Increasing in Maine Amid Climate Concerns
Times News Global
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June 14, 2025
PORTLAND, Maine — As summer approaches, the nights in Maine are getting warmer, a trend fueled by climate change. In the first half of the 2020s, the number of nights with temperatures exceeding 70 degrees is surpassing the total from the 2010s....
Maine Moose Lottery Names Thousands of Winners at Outdoor Festival
Times News Global
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June 21, 2025
FARMINGTON, Maine (WGME) — The results are in for the Maine Moose Permit Lottery, and thousands of outdoor enthusiasts celebrated at the High Peaks Outdoor Heritage Festival on Saturday. The festival, held at the Farmington Fairgrounds, marked its...
Paper mills in Maine release above average levels of greenhouse gas
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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“In Maine, there are several plants that are still burning coal and… tires,” said Courtney Bernhardt, EIP’s director of research who co-authored the report. “We wanted to raise awareness about that.” The group analyzed greenhouse gas emissions...
Maine’s battle to protect public lands
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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But Mainers have as much of a stake in the current political fight over the future of federal resources as anyone else. Public lands, waters, and wildlife are part of our birthright as American citizens, a public domain that we all collectively...
Man Ejected from Tractor Trailer & Seriously Injured in Maine
Big Country 96.9 - Maine
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June 28, 2025
A 58-year-old man was seriously injured Friday after he was ejected from a tractor trailer following a crash on I-95 in Old Town. Man Ejected from Tractor Trailer The Maine State Police said Robert Pierce from Westbrook was taken to Eastern Maine...
New legislation charts Maine’s pathway to 100% clean energy by 2040
The Maine Monitor
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June 27, 2025
Editor’s Note: The following first appeared in The Maine Monitor’s free environmental newsletter, Climate Monitor, that is delivered to inboxes every Friday morning. Sign up for the free newsletter to stay informed of Maine environmental news....
Flying Lanterns in the Maine Sky Could Get You a $500 Fine
92 Moose - Maine
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June 28, 2025
Summer has arrived in Maine and so has reasons to celebrate. From individuals to entire towns, some people choose to celebrate occasions by launching fireworks. Consumer fireworks remain legal in Maine (with restrictions depending on where you're...
Business Portland Press Herald, Maine New 'incubator' wants to keep Maine life science startups from heading to Boston
Yahoo News
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Jun. 28—Matt Hoffner has seen too many of Maine's promising life science startups leave the state to grow their companies. Entrepreneurs in the burgeoning industry reach a point where they've developed their idea and need to test it out in a...
Maine schooner, fishing vessel collide off Kennebunkport
National Fisherman - Alaska
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June 20, 2025 A collision between a commercial fishing boat and a chartered schooner left one sailboat passenger with minor injuries and a minor diesel fuel spill off Kennebunkport, Maine, according to local emergency responders. The crew of the...
Climate Change Weekly # 547 — Polar Ice Is Not Following the Climate Crisis Narrative
The Heartland Institute
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June 20, 2025
IN THIS ISSUE: Polar Ice Is Not Following the Climate Crisis Narrative Noise Impact on Health Causes Irish Court to Shut Down Wind Turbines Extreme High Temperatures in the United Kingdom Recorded at Junk Sites Crisis Narrative Polar Ice Is Not...