Environment and Outdoors

"Between noon today and noon tomorrow is when we expect that the highest values will occur at the surface in Maine," says Martha Webster, a state air quality meteorologist.

It’s been nearly two years since any of the 27,000-tons of carpet-like material were last removed from a site in Warren under the state’s most recent attempt to clean up an abandoned rifle range.

The drought is receding in northern New England, but part of western Maine and a sliver of northern New Hampshire continue to be in the "severe drought" category.

Agritourism is growing in Maine and nationwide. We learn how farms connect with visitors to bring in income and promote agriculture, while contributing to the state's tourism economy.

Friends of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument announced Wednesday that they've added seven new tent sites on the East Branch of the Penobscot River near the historic Lunksoos sporting camps.

Conservation organization Oceana tracked vessel speeds between 2017 and 2020 in special speed limited zones, established by NOAA to protect whales from ship collisions.

The National Weather Service in Maine says smoke from wildfires in Oregon, British Columbia, and Alberta is making its way to Maine.

A group of corridor opponents, including citizens, state lawmakers and conservation organizations, contend in the lawsuit that the state should have sought the Legislature's approval before leasing roughly 33 acres of public land in the West Forks area to CMP.

Wolfden Resources, a Canadian mining company looking to develop a precious minerals mine in Maine, is under criticism for claims made to investors regarding Indigenous rights in the state and the environmental impact the mine will have on the area’s bodies of water.

The situation in Wiscasset underscores a thorny issue facing more than 100 communities across the U.S.: What to do with hundreds of thousands of tons of nuclear waste that has no place to go.