lakes protection

Youth Conservation Corps workers rebuild a shoreline buffer on Great Pond in Belgrade

Climate Desk

Climate driven storms add runoff to Maine lakes, degrading water quality

Peter McGuire

Soil runoff from intense rainstorms can degrade water quality and trigger algal blooms.

A crew from Lakes Environmental Association helps divers remove milfoil from the Songo River near Sebago Lake.

Climate Desk

Maine's warming lakes incubate damaging invasive plants

Peter McGuire

Species such as variable leaf milfoil are growing faster and stronger as freshwater temperatures tick up.

Conservationist Whitney Baker conducts water tests during an algal bloom on Androscoggin Lake.

Climate Desk

As lakes warm, pollution threats grow deep below the surface

Peter McGuire

Seasonal water layers are lasting longer, helping feed algal blooms from nutrients buried in lake beds.

Environment and Outdoors

NSF Giving $100K To Help With UMaine Lake Quality Study

Associated Press

ORONO, Maine - The National Science Foundation is giving $100,000 to help with a University of Maine citizen science project geared at protecting the…

Politics

Lawmakers Endorse Lakes Protection Bill That Could Face LePage Veto

By Christopher Cousins, Bangor Daily NewsAUGUSTA, Maine — A bill designed to protect Maine lakes by banning the use of fertilizers containing phosphorus…