I’ve been remiss in posting that in this past week’s Maine Sunday Telegram I reported on new scientific research that reveals a new level of detail of how the Gulf… Read more »
Article Topic: science stories
Gulf of Maine warming concentrated in summer, which is getting longer
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A catastrophic year for North Atlantic right whales
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This has been a terrible year for one of the most endangered marine mammals on Earth, the North Atlantic right whale, which has a surviving population of just 500. As… Read more »
On pirates in Maine in the Press Herald and on WCSH-6
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By coincidence, I both wrote about and was interviewed about pirates in Maine last week. Maine’s NBC affiliates, WCSH-6 here in Portland and WLBZ-2 in Bangor, were curious about the… Read more »
Study predicts Gulf of Maine will become too warm for most ground fish
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Regular readers will likely recall “Mayday,” a series I did for the Press Herald on the warming of the Gulf of Maine and the challenges it presents for its inhabitants,… Read more »
DNA study confirms American Nations map
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From Nature “Clustering of 770,000 genomes reveal post-colonial population structure of North America.” Last month, the journal Nature published a genetic study on ancestral clustering in North America using the… Read more »