Murray Carpenter
Climate ReporterMurray Carpenter is Maine Public’s climate reporter, covering climate change and other environmental news.
Murray has been a Maine journalist for 25 years, with much of his reporting focused on science and environmental stories. His experience includes working as a reporter and editor for the Republican Journal, a staff writer for Maine Times, and an earlier stint as a general assignment reporter for Maine Public from 2006-2008. As a freelancer, he has reported for the New York Times, The Washington Post, and NPR. His book Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts and Hooks Us was published by Penguin in 2014.
Murray lives in Maine and spends as much time as possible outdoors, preferably with his wife and two adult daughters.
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A river restoration project in Maine's Pleasant River watershed will allow Atlantic salmon and brook trout to access several miles of a cold brook in the Hundred Mile Wilderness.
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The Department of Health and Human Services is sending letters to 67,000 Maine residents who are eligible for the Low Income Assistance Program. That's 46,000 more people this season, thanks to additional funding and expanded eligibility guidelines.
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Growers rely on the map, which delineates different plant hardiness zones based on average minimum temperatures over a 30-year period. It had not been updated for 11 years.
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The Penobscot Indian Nation and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians are among those awarded America the Beautiful grants Tuesday from the Department of the Interior and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
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The report highlights the rapid pace of the changes in recent years, especially the frequency of extreme events like coastal flooding, heavy precipitation, marine heat waves and wildfires.
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Maine's ReVision Energy announced Thursday that it's acquiring the Massachusetts company Sunbug Solar.
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Maine Transportation Department to rebuild — rather than replace — controversial Machias dike bridgeThe so-called dike bridge is equipped with culverts and valves that block tidal flow and fish migrations into the river. As it has deteriorated, salmon advocates and federal regulators had hoped to see it replaced by a bridge. But some upstream landowners objected, and want the dike to be rebuilt instead.
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State elections officials say that voting has largely gone smoothly so far across the state, even as voters work through eight different referendum questions on the ballot. Polls will close tonight at 8 p.m.
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Gun dealers across Maine are reporting a surge in sales of guns and ammo to customers concerned about self defense.
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As the focus of Maine's worst mass shooting in history shifts toward healing, hundreds of people gathered in Lisbon Saturday evening for the first of several planned vigils to remember the victims.