Gulf of Maine

Scientists believe their return may be due to colder deep water temperatures in the Gulf of Maine this past spring.

A nonprofit serves as a training ground for high schoolers and others wanting to learn to scuba dive — and is trying to make a dent in Maine's ghost gear problem, one abandoned trap at a time.

Long-term survey from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science indicates a warming Gulf of Maine is inhospitable for kelp.

Six of the potential wind plots are located off outer Cape Cod. The remaining two sites are off the Maine coast. In total, the sites encompass about 850,000 acres, about 120,000 fewer acres than initially proposed earlier this year.

A new report said leasing will have no environmental impact.

This summer, the state of Maine launched a research program to learn more about the whereabouts of North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of Maine. The findings could be critical for the future of the state's lobster industry — and in the race to preserve the critically endangered population.

Up to a dozen floating wind turbine platforms would be located about 30 nautical miles southeast of Portland as part of a project to study the UMaine-developed technology and its interactions with the surrounding environment.

Data collected from buoys placed in the Gulf of Maine show that over the last six months, deep water temperatures are noticeably lower than the long-term average.

An unusually large algae bloom in the Gulf of Maine has researchers trying to understand its cause and possible effects.

Fishermen have been warned to stay clear of the two wind and solar-powered boats, which will cruise along a predetermined path of 1,900 square miles in the northeastern Gulf of Maine.