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PublishedNovember 8, 2020
Record warmth to start the week, rain returns on Wednesday
Daily and monthly high temperature records are in jeopardy this week. The cold front will bring rain and noticeably cooler conditions for the middle and end of the week.
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PublishedOctober 5, 2020
Exxon’s plan for surging carbon emissions revealed in leaked documents
Internal projections from one of world's largest oil producers show an increase in its enormous contribution to global warming.
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2019
Climate study: In 60 years, Portland will feel like current-day Baltimore
A Maryland researcher tries to explain climate change by calculating the average temperatures in 540 U.S. and Canadian cities in 2080.
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2019
McConnell plans vote on Green New Deal to put political pressure on Democrats
The Senate majority leader wants lawmakers on the record about the climate change package, hoping it will alienate their moderate constituents.
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PublishedJanuary 22, 2019
Brazilian leader Bolsonaro quells fears, pledges to cut carbon emissions
The environment dominates talks at the World Economic Forum.
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PublishedJanuary 13, 2019
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.
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PublishedDecember 16, 2018
Portland man mining climate change for laughs – and action
Eco-cleaner and aspiring comic Jason Wentworth was living a so-called sustainable life – until he realized he wasn't.
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PublishedOctober 30, 2018
Candy producer Mars turns to science to keep chocolate flowing amid climate change
The company has hired a biotech firm to outfit it with computing tools to help develop more resilient cacao trees, which produce the beans used to make chocolate.
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PublishedOctober 21, 2018
Green movement grows brighter on campuses in Maine
Colleges take on climate change with environmentally smart new buildings.
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PublishedOctober 15, 2018
Trouble brewing: Global warming to leave us crying in our costlier beer
Increasing bouts of extreme heat waves and drought will hurt production of barley, a key beer ingredient, resulting in soaring beer prices, in the future, scientists say.
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