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Northern house wrens one of the birds to look for in July
4+ hour, 58+ min ago (244+ words) Wrens often build more than one nest and will be very activity feeding their chicks....
Blue crabs are showing up in Maine waters. What could that mean for green crabs?
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (493+ words) Researchers from Bowdoin College and the Wells Reserve put the 2 invasive species in tanks together to find out....
Bigelow Laboratory’s Café Sci program kicks off July 22
3+ day, 38+ min ago (169+ words) These free science talks will be at 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Aug. 12....
Japanese knotweed giving you fits? Here’s how you can kill it
1+ week, 1+ day ago (804+ words) Japanese knotweed is among the world’s most invasive, resilient plant species. In Maine, it has spread “everywhere,” said Abigail Edenfield, Presumpscot Land Trust’s environmental steward from Maine Conservation Corps. The species is highly damaging to Maine’s natural ecosystems. “It’s like…...
Bigelow Lab invites community to annual open house
1+ week, 3+ day ago (31+ words) Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences will welcome the public from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday for a day of fun and free, all-ages activities and science talks....
Keep an eye on our insect populations | Letter
1+ week, 5+ day ago (194+ words) In this season of bugs, when the soundtrack of the outdoors has always been composed of the buzz of black flies and the whine of mosquitoes, there is an eerie quiet coming over the woods. Recently, I’ve been in places…...
Fisheries managers must stop delaying and protect Maine’s river herring | Opinion
1+ week, 6+ day ago (729+ words) Rusty Taylor is executive director of the Alewife Harvesters of Maine, treasurer of the Maine Elver Fishermen’s Association and a resident of Mount Desert. Long before America’s founding 250 years ago, Mainers relied on the annual return of river herring, mostly…...
Wildlife finds creative ways of staying cool in summer
2+ week, 4+ hour ago (126+ words) Beware at sandy beaches, where piping plovers and least terns nest, and get a laugh from gray squirrels splooting....
Chebeague Island restoration effort improves shore for people and plovers
2+ week, 3+ day ago (28+ words) The Chebeague and Cumberland Land Trust is celebrating the completion of a project at Indian Point that improved human access to the beach and nesting habitat for plovers....
AI is changing work. Maine must be free to respond. | Opinion
3+ week, 1+ day ago (27+ words) Current proposals in Congress would strip states across the country of the right to respond to the real-world impacts of AI in their own communities....