Over 400 businesspeople and 60 presenters gathered in Augusta to share perspectives and practices on dealing with Earth’s warming.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Multibillion-dollar natural disasters are the new normal
The tab for rebuilding following 18 weather calamities reached $175 billion in 2022. And that wasn’t the most expensive year.
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Posted inNation & World, News
The likelihood that Earth briefly hits key warming threshold grows bigger and closer, UN forecasts
The United Nations’ weather agency says there’s a two-out-of-three chance that the world will reach the internationally accepted global temperature threshold for limiting the worst effects of climate change sometime in the next five years.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
The terrors of climate change are front and center in ‘Blue Skies’
In this dark family drama, catastrophe looms large.
Posted inNation & World
In major climate step, EPA proposes first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants
A new rule could force power plants to capture smokestack emissions using a technology that has long been promised but is not in widespread use in the U.S.
Posted inMaine
Maine rivers face increasing flood threat, research shows
The Northeast is seeing some of the biggest changes in rainfall quantity and intensity, according to the National Climate Assessment.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Gary Anderson: Environmentalism’s endless someday
Lately, the news seems particularly prone to fearmongering, and needlessly so given, that there are already so many totally frightful aspects to today’s “new normal.” Perhaps fear’s increased exploitation is merely media’s desperate misdirection from the ever more dreaded terror of life’s increasingly overwhelming chaos. True chaos is difficult to sound bite. Fear is much […]
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
Deadly heat waves threaten older people as summer nears
A 2021 study estimates more than a third of U.S. heat deaths each year can be attributed to human-caused global warming.
Posted inNation & World
Earth in hot water? Worries over sudden ocean warming spike
In the last few weeks, the global average ocean sea surface temperature jumped 0.36 degree F, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer.
Posted inScarborough Leader, Southern Maine Weeklies
Workshop calls for land conservation goals
A Scarborough Town Council workshop on April 19 discussed on how to achieve the town’s conservation goals and achieve the “30 by 30” initiative.
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