After two storms walloped the Maine coast last January, devastating waterfront communities and causing more than $70 million in damage, Ford Reiche boarded a helicopter to check on nearly two dozen lighthouses.

Maine’s lighthouses are under a dire threat from significant coastal storms and sea level rise due to climate change.

Threats from climate change have landed Maine’s iconic lighthouses on an international watchlist. The World Monument Fund says the state's 66 lighthouses face major challenges due to climate change. According to the Gulf of Maine Research Institute,

Scientists may modify their claims as new research and information become available, but that doesn't mean they were initially wrong.

Dartmouth researchers say zooplankton could help bury carbon in the ocean. The key to that process? Sprinkling clay dust on the surface of the water.

Not every weather fluctuation is demonstrably affected by climate change. But the impact of the steady increase in global temperature is now detectable in many extreme weather events—and likely many of the more normal ones, too, says Justin Mankin, a climate scientist at Dartmouth College.

The governor wants Maine to be a leader in addressing climate change, and on Tuesday, she introduced the first piece of new legislation in the 132nd legislature aimed at increasing the state's preparedness and resiliency ahead of the next extreme weather event.

The short answer is no. Humans are unlikely to go extinct due to a 2-4 degree Celsius increase in temperature, but the infrastructure created for our civilization is fragile and would be enormously impacted with deadly results.

Maine has lost about two weeks of winter temperatures and snow cover since the early 20th century, according to information on the University of Maine website. Over the past century, the state’s mean annual temperature has increased by about 3 degrees Fahrenheit.

Walls of flames, fanned by high winds, roaring across drought-stricken land. That's the scene in Los Angeles now. It also happened in Maine. In late October 1947, massive wildfires swept across the state,

President-elect Trump’s nominee for Interior secretary, sat for a largely cordial hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on

The state of Maine has been tackling climate change for decades. Maine is well-poised to continue that work, says Gayle Zydlewski, director of Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of ...