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PublishedJanuary 3, 2024
Human evolution may prevent us from solving climate change, UMaine study finds
A new study by an international team led by evolutionary biologist Tim Waring says that humans are good at extracting resources from the Earth but struggle to cooperate on a scale necessary to fight worldwide environmental threats.
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PublishedDecember 28, 2023
DEP official: Board to consider EV rules even as it urges Legislature to revise regulations
The Board of Environmental Protection delayed a vote on the rules this month, angering climate advocates who say Maine needs to act soon to limit gas-powered cars with their tailpipe emissions.
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PublishedDecember 27, 2023
Maine board wants to hand decision on electric vehicle mandate to Legislature
If lawmakers step in, it will further delay a policy that environmental groups had hoped would already have been decided.
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PublishedDecember 22, 2023
White Christmas is becoming more of a dream than a reality in Maine
The state's winters are getting warmer and wetter, and there'll be no white Christmas this year, again.
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PublishedDecember 20, 2023
State environmental board postpones meeting to consider electric vehicle mandates
The massive storm that tore through the state has forced a Maine environmental board to postpone a Thursday meeting that was to consider electric vehicle sales mandates.
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PublishedDecember 19, 2023
Monday’s powerful storm latest example of bad weather made worse by climate change
The unseasonably warm weather that Maine is experiencing due to an increase in heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere gave the wet winter storm its powerful punch, scientists say.
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PublishedDecember 18, 2023
More climate disasters are forcing millions of Americans to move, researchers say
In the U.S., the frequency of disasters causing at least $1 billion in damages has gone from roughly 3 a year during the 1980s to an annual average of 17.8 over the period from 2018 to 2022.
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PublishedDecember 13, 2023
Nearly 200 nations agree to transition away from fossil fuels
Nearly 2 weeks of negotiations ended at the U.N. Climate Change Conference, COP28, in Dubai's Expo City.
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PublishedDecember 12, 2023
Standoff over future of fossil fuels pushes climate summit into overtime
Another compromise version of the cornerstone document, called the global stocktake, was being prepped Tuesday evening.
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PublishedDecember 11, 2023
Endangered species list grows by 2,000, and Atlantic salmon are near threatened
Climate change is making it harder for the salmon to find food and easier for alien species to compete, but there are some signs of hope: Their numbers ticked up in Maine this year.
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