Zero Waste proponents just say no to plastics and packaging.
environment
Posted inFood, Maine Gardener, Source
Falling on the ice is bad for you. But ice-melting salt is bad for your garden.
Here’s how to balance two opposing needs.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Loggers and conservationists have many common interests
Well-managed sustainable forestry is compatible with wildlife and recreation.
Posted inOutdoors, Sports
Birding: No partridges in pear trees, but plenty of other birds in Maine’s annual Christmas Count
The coastal area counts range from grackles to goldeneyes, from wrens to warblers
Posted inNation & World
Northeast states target transportation emissions
Nine states and Washington, D.C., commit to a ‘RGGI redux’ and are hopeful that New York and Maine will join the group.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Trump’s EPA taking its most harmful step yet, this time on mercury emissions
A proposed policy would no longer count a regulation’s benefits, just its costs to polluters, in deciding the severity level of environmental protections.
Posted inFood, Maine Gardener, Source
When nothing else grows, seed catalogs sprout
Our columnist gives the highlights of several local ones.
Posted inFood
Mainers take to ‘anxiety baking’ to cope in uncertain times
With bad news coming from seemingly every corner – Washington, Wall Street, the environment – some breadmaking, cooking and consuming food is in order.
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Gov. Mills steadily targeting tribal rights
Her choice of Jerry Reid as environmental protection chief underscores her indifference to tribes’ sovereignty.
Posted inNation & World
Trash-collecting boom breaks in Pacific Ocean, will return to land for repair
The inventor says the problem was not unexpected, and that the 2,000-foot-long device eventually will resume its task of shrinking an island of floating plastic.