They’re not the easiest plant, but their blooms make the effort worth it.
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EPA to roll back water protections
Supporters praised Trump for scaling back what they said was federal overreach and ‘never about clean water.’
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Carpets could be causing trouble underfoot
We don’t know what microfibers may be doing to us.
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Cut down on plastic by covering food in cloth? Now, that’s a wrap
Take a T-shirt and bake it in beeswax for a storage sheet you can reuse.
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Activists gather for climate march in Poland
Some demonstrators dress up as animals that are in danger of extinction from man-made global warming and deforestation.
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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.
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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.
Posted inBusiness, News
Electronic fishery monitoring gets big boost in Gulf of Maine
A pair of private foundations and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will fund data collection efforts across the country, including a project to monior the Gulf of Maine’s groundfishery.
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Gardeners – need some reading material for the long winter ahead?
Put down your trowel and pick up a book.
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Composer creates a classical ode to the Allagash
Nate Saunders first saw the Allagash Wilderness Waterway as a teenager.