From the North Sea to the Canadian Arctic, oil companies have raised the decks of offshore platforms, protected pipelines from increasing coastal erosion, and designed helipads, pipelines and roads to withstand a warmer climate.
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Sea Change: Students take climate change into their own hands, and feet
‘I can be a part of something that makes a difference,’ one student says after marching to City Hall to push for solutions.
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Book Review: “Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again.”
Things in Donald Trump’s new book you probably won’t hear at a rally.
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Maine Voices: Reduced river flow alters Casco Bay food web, adds to global warming
Since 1980, Maine DEP has failed advocate for outflows needed to for a healthy ecosystem.
Posted inNation & World
Urban sprawl, levees blamed in Midwest floods
When we try to tame it, ‘Mother Nature and Old Man River will fight back,’ an emergency official says.
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Maine Voices: Let climate be right for bipartisan effort against global warming
Climate change affects our public health and welfare, and threatens Maine’s nature-based economy.
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M.D. Harmon: Only on paper has the global thermometer been turned down
Thankfully, the COP21 farce doesn’t have the whole wide world in its hands.
Posted inMaine, News
Interactive charts: recent data show uptick in Maine’s greenhouse gas emissions
Maine’s greenhouse gas pollution is generally trending downward, but increasing pollution from motor vehicles – the biggest source of the problem – could wipe out recent gains from renewable energy and more efficient buildings.
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Maine Voices: Effect of freshwater flows on Gulf need to be studied
Storage dams don’t mimic the natural seasonal fluctuations in flow patterns and could be disrupting the delivery of nutrients to the state’s coastal waters.
Posted inNation & World
House Science Committee chairman: Climate study was ‘rushed to publication’
Lamar Smith, R-Texas, presses for access to NOAA’s internal communications about the study that refutes claims of a ‘pause’ in global warming.