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environment
Maine Voices: Toxic algae in Florida offer valuable lessons for protecting Maine waters
Consistent, sound science is needed to manage harmful algal blooms, and monitoring, prediction and education efforts are critical but sorely underfunded.
Gardeners – need some reading material for the long winter ahead?
Put down your trowel and pick up a book.
Maine Voices: Blue skies reign over the Portland International Jetport
The jetport has built a national reputation for balancing airport development with effective environmental stewardship.
Commentary: Profits, not climate benefits, are driving CMP transmission proposal
The utility’s transmission line will harm Maine’s environment, economy and way of life – and will do nothing to reduce climate-disrupting pollution.
Maine Voices: Oyster company’s plan for 40-acre lease is bad for bay, public
A significantly smaller farm that processes oysters on land is in the best interests of all of us who care about Maquoit Bay off Brunswick.
Composer creates a classical ode to the Allagash
Nate Saunders first saw the Allagash Wilderness Waterway as a teenager.
Who needs Christmas lights when you’ve got blossoms for the holidays?
A primer on poinsettia, a course on cacti and an analysis of amaryllis.
Fresh or frozen fish? The answer may surprise you
A long-standing myth about frozen seafood purports that it is of poor quality because freezing is the seafood industry’s way to prevent aging fish from going bad.