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
Posted & filed under climate change, environment, fishing, Maine, Maine dispatches, Mayday, New England, Nova Scotia, Oceans, Portland Press Herald, science stories, US dispatches.
A catastrophic year for North Atlantic right whales
Posted & filed under Atlantic Canada, environment, Massachusetts, New England, Oceans, Portland Press Herald, science stories, whales.
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
Posted & filed under Maine, Maine history, Massachusetts, media appearances, National Geographic, NBC, pirates, Portland Press Herald, Republic of Pirates, science stories, US History, World History.
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 »
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.