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ICN Maine

Another Dry Spell Hits New England, Raising Alarm About Flash Droughts

Researchers say sudden, short-lived droughts in the region may become more frequent, putting farms, grasslands and water supply systems at risk.

By Ryan Krugman

The effect of drought is seen on the east branch of the Pemigewasset River on Sept. 29 in Lincoln, N.H. Credit: Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
A Puffin delivers sand lance to a chick on Maine’s Seal Island. Credit: Derrick Jackson/The Equation

Protecting Puffins in Maine Is an Emotional Commitment

By Derrick Z. Jackson, The Equation

A Central Maine Power lineworker repairs a transmission line in Portland, Maine. Credit: Brianna Soukup/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

Central Maine Power Faces Backlash Over Proposed Rate Hikes and Shareholder Profits

By Ryan Krugman

Billy Longfellow of the Sipayik Environmental Department explains how the Samaqannihkuk well station works. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News

Climate Change Worsens Half-Century of Drinking Water Problems for Maine Native Reservation

By Sydney Cromwell

A wall made of boulders protects portions of Sipayik’s eastern coast from tidal erosion in Maine. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News

In Far Northeastern Maine, a Native Community Fights to Adapt to Climate Change

By Sydney Cromwell

The community clam garden at Sipayik started with 250,000 clam seedlings in 2022 and now has 1.25 million clams growing in its plots. Credit: Courtesy of Erik Francis

Can Clams Make a Comeback on a Tribal Reservation in Maine?

By Sydney Cromwell

Treated sewage sludge dries in shallow sand beds. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Why Farmers May Be Able to Continue Fertilizing Fields With PFAS-Contaminated Sewage Sludge

By Tom Perkins

The Magalloway River flows into Parmachenee Lake in western Maine. Credit: Ben Pearson

Lakes Region Restoration Project Aims to Link Conservation Lands From Maine to New Hampshire

By Olivia Gieger

A freeze in a federal loan program affects nonprofits across the country, including one in Fort Wayne, Ind., where David de Leon is construction manager. His organization works to restore old houses for use by low-income families. Credit: Rachel Von Art/Inside Climate News

How We Got a Green Bank, How Trump Is Trying to Kill It and Who Gets Hurt

By Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino

Annabel Williams, an apprentice at Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment, interacts with some of the cows during her chores round on Sept. 17, 2024.

Feeding Cows Seaweed Could Cut Methane Emissions and Diversify Maine’s Coastal Economy, but Can It Scale?

Story and photos by Matilda Hay

Firefighters battle a brush fire inside Boxford State Forest in North Andover, Mass. on Nov. 18, 2024. Credit: Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Could the Northeast Burn Again?

By Olivia Gieger

A logging truck drives through a forest in Allagash, Maine. Credit: Gabe Souza/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

Using the ‘Magic’ of LiDAR to Map Maine’s Old-Growth Forests

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

A pine tree lays on power lines after it was knocked over due to Post-Tropical Cyclone Lee on Sept. 16, 2023 in Eastport, Maine. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

The US’s Easternmost City Could Be a Model for the Country’s Renewable Future

By Olivia Gieger

As the director of natural resources for the Penobscot Nation, Chuck Loring is leading the largest land-back conservation effort a United States tribe has seen. Credit: Olivia Gieger/Inside Climate News

31,000 Acres at the Front of a Movement

By Olivia Gieger

In 2023, a North Atlantic right whale was spotted off the coast of Georgia with rope lodged in its mouth. Credit: Georgia DNR/NOAA Fisheries

The Futures of Right Whales and Lobstermen Are Entangled. Could High-Tech Gear Help Save Them Both?

By Kiley Price

Coils of rope are seen in the parking lot as lobstermen head out to sea in Vinalhaven, Maine. Credit: Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

A Beached Whale Has Reignited the Fight Between Conservationists and Maine’s Lobster Industry

By Kiley Price

Seth Berry, left, an author of the Pine Tree Power proposal and a former Democratic state representative, answers questions from potential voters at a gathering of climate activists at a home in Winslow, Maine, in August. Credit: Annie Ropeik

Mainers See Climate Promise in Ballot Initiative to Create a Statewide Nonprofit Electric Utility

By Annie Ropeik

A lobster roll is seen Thursday, July 2, 2015 at Fort Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Credit: Joel Page/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

To Save Whales, Should We Stop Eating Lobster?

By Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Mother Jones

A species of zooplankton called Calanus finmarchicus floats in a sample jar in a laboratory at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute on Sept. 2, 2015. Credit: Gregory Rec/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

A Big Climate Warning from One of the Gulf of Maine’s Smallest Marine Creatures

By Derrick Z. Jackson

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