Journalist Murray Carpenter to lead climate reporting at Maine Public

Maine Public has announced that journalist Murray Carpenter has joined the Maine Public News Department in a new reporting role covering climate change.

Merryspring hosts webinar on interpreting science through art

Maine artist and science communicator Jill Pelto leads the presentation Tuesday, May 3, at noon.

See free Earth Week movie in Rockport

"The Story of Plastic" shows Sunday, April 24, at 4 p.m. and is followed by a panel discussion with local environmentalists.

Underfed puffin and tern chicks dying off as climate change makes food scarce

Protected seabirds such as puffins, terns and razorbills are not producing as many chicks as they should on Maine’s islands. The chicks that are hatched are underweight and struggling, biologists report.

Watershed School students’ statement on Montgomery Dam

Watershed School students address the Megunticook River Restoration project

Camden officials hear opposition to dam removal

Town officials hear strong support for preservation of the dam's structures from some business owners and the Library Board of Trustees. The full Select Board has not discussed the Montgomery Dam since 2019.

Art opening focuses on climate change July 9

ROCKLAND — Maine Coastal Islands Art Gallery will feature three shows focusing on climate change. The art opening will be Friday, July 9, 2 to 4 p.m. at the Maine Coastal Islands NWR Visitor Center, 9 Water St. in Rockland.

Gov. Mills signs into law bill to help state schools go carbon neutral

Lobster Conservancy to install tide gauge in Friendship

The Maine Community Foundation has awarded a $4,500 grant to The Lobster Conservancy, which will use the funds to install a new tide gauge at Friendship in support of the conservancy’s 2012 Juvenile Lobster Census. Since 1992, the volunteer-based census has counted post-larval and early-juvenile lobsters in their shoreline nursery habitats, from Massachusetts to Maine, that are exposed only during the lowest ...