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Yet another reason not to ever waste fresh herbs
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How did professor Stephen Coghlan study the human cost of homesteading?
He relied on a test subject very close to home.
Volunteers at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ herbarium help curate its collection
They mount plants the old way, glued to acid-free paper, and the new – inputting facts online, with 21st-century implications.
Another View: Creating gene-edited babies raises huge ethical issues
If they did take place, the experiments that have been described could affect our descendants in unforeseen ways.
Maine Voices: Oyster farm proposal should ring alarms along entire Maine coast
The way the Mere Point plan was handled fails to take local input into account.
Maine Voices: Yes, older adults shouldn’t be forgotten – but what about our kids?
We should at least try to leave the next generation something comparable to what we inherited.
Smithfield, Virginia utility launch plan to capture methane from hog manure lagoons
The companies will spend $125 million each over 10 years to cover lagoons in North Carolina, Virginia and Utah – states where both have operations.
Maine Voices: We know how to fight climate change, and all of us must play a part
The harm that warming is doing now will only get worse unless citizens, businesses and governments make mitigating actions part of their daily lives.
Our View: Maine should invest in measures to mitigate looming damage from climate change
Predictable storms, sea-level rise and flooding call for major spending now to prevent economic disruption and the catastrophic loss of property in our state.