On Friday, Maine took the first cautious steps toward loosening restrictions that slowed the growth of the coronavirus here, protecting hospitals from being overwhelmed. The four-phase plan opens many parts… Read more »
Article Topic: science stories
Maine’s reopening plan not backed by big enough testing regime, experts say
Posted & filed under coronavirus, covid19, Health, Maine dispatches, Portland Press Herald, science stories.
Can a Maine-based project help farmers worldwide fight climate change by storing more carbon in their soil?
Posted & filed under agriculture, climate change, environment, Maine, Maine dispatches, Portland Press Herald, science stories.
I recently reported on an applied research initiative at Maine’s Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment that has the potential to help save the world. Some 14 percent… Read more »
Covering Climate Now and the Gulf of Maine
Posted & filed under climate change, environment, fishing, Maine, Maine dispatches, Maine politics, Oceans, polar regions, Portland Press Herald, science stories, US politics.
Ahead of United Nations Climate Summit in New York next week, more than 170 news outlets have signed on to Covering Climate Now, an effort organized by the Columbia Journalism… Read more »
Warming of Gulf of Maine choking right whale food supply
Posted & filed under Atlantic Canada, climate change, environment, Maine, Mayday, New England, Oceans, science stories.
In recent years, the endangered North Atlantic right whale has effectively abandoned summer feeding grounds in the eastern Gulf of Maine, showing up instead in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence,… Read more »
Maine’s US Senators seek federal response to warming Gulf of Maine
Posted & filed under Angus King, Atlantic Canada, Canada, climate change, environment, Maine, Mayday, New England, Oceans, Portland Press Herald, science stories, US politics.
Last week I reported on Canadian researchers having found record-warm water pouring into the primary deepwater entrance to the Gulf of Maine and Maine scientists confirming that they’ve seen similar,… Read more »
Record-warm deepwater pouring into the Gulf of Maine, researchers find
Posted & filed under Atlantic Canada, Canada, climate change, environment, Maine, Mayday, New England, Oceans, Portland Press Herald, science stories.
In today’s Portland Press Herald, I wrote about a Canadian research team’s discovery that record-warm Gulf Stream water is pouring into the Gulf of Maine, probably because of a weakening… Read more »
Speaking on the crisis in the oceans and Gulf of Maine, Portland, Mar. 7
Posted & filed under Antarctica, climate change, environment, fishing, Maine, Mayday, Ocean's End, Oceans, polar regions, Portland Press Herald, science stories.
I’ll be speaking about the crisis in the world’s oceans and in the Gulf of Maine on March 7th at the Portland Public Library here in Maine. The talk was… Read more »
Can a fallen New Hampshire mill town become the Silicon Valley of human organ manufacturing?
Posted & filed under business reporting, New England, New Hampshire, Politico, science stories, What Works.
Over at POLITICO, I have the story of how inventor Dean Kamen is leading a $300 million push to resolve bottlenecks in the mass production of genetically-customized human tissues and… Read more »
Facing threat to shellfish industries, Maine doing pretty much nothing
Posted & filed under climate change, environment, fishing, Maine, Maine dispatches, Maine politics, Mayday, New England, Oceans, Portland Press Herald, science stories, US dispatches.
“Mayday,” the Portland Press Herald series on the effects — now and moving forward — of the rapid warming of the Gulf of Maine, came out two years ago and… Read more »
Turns out the American Nations left a genetic trace too
Posted & filed under American Nations, Medium, science stories, US History.
Some of you may recall the study published earlier this year in Nature Communications, where genetics researchers mapped reproductive clustering in North America in time and space. Many of you… Read more »
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of six books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2016. He is a contributing editor at POLITICO and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.