As one fire grows in northern California another knocks out power lines in southern Oregon, prompting calls to reduce power consumption. Meanwhile, two firefighters are dead in Arizona.
climate change
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Maine needs to better prepare for changing climate – and we can’t do it alone
Our congressional delegation should press for approval of federal funding that will protect Mainers who live and make their livelihood by the rising seas.
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Posted inFood, Maine Gardener
Do the patriotic thing: Grow a garden
For a whole host of reasons, gardening is good citizenship.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: The climate time bomb keeps ticking more loudly
As we continue to make Earth more hospitable to pests and less hospitable to humans, Mainers age 40 and under are going to pay the highest price.
Posted inNation & World
Medical examiners continue to tally the dead from Northwest heat wave
Hundreds of deaths were being investigated as heat related in Oregon, Washington state and British Columbia.
Posted inNation & World
Dozens of deaths likely tied to historic Northwest heat wave
Several cities in Idaho also topped 100 F on Tuesday with the hottest spot in Lewiston, where the temperature reached 115 F.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
The U.S. grid’s big looming problem: Getting power to where it’s needed
The nation’s already strained power grid is either at a turning point or poised to dash clean-power visions as it crumbles under the new stresses that will be placed upon it.
Posted inNation & World
Rising seas have long pressured Miami coastal properties
Experts on sea level rise and climate change caution that it is too soon to speculate if rising seas helped destabilize the oceanfront condo that collapsed this week in Surfside.
Posted inFood, Maine, News
Strawberry season arrived early this year, so get picking quick
It might be a short season at pick-your-own farms, many of which opened this week.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Former PUC commissioners: Don’t put politicians in charge of our electric grid
Maine will not be able to keep up its climate response in the midst of a costly takeover battle.