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Pennsylvania residents will soon have the opportunity to support and celebrate their state amphibian, the eastern hellbender, with a newly designed specialty license plate. The eastern hellbender, known as America’s largest salamander, earned the prestigious title of Pennsylvania’s state amphibian back in 2019. Although these reclusive creatures are seldom encountered in the wild by most […]

In this Perspective, Francesca R Dillman Carpentier and colleagues discuss the need for comprehensive policies to protect children from unhealthy food marketing and its influence on their health trajectories.

ORONO — A talk on coastal and fisheries access and its diverse meanings is scheduled at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine.

The Kumulipo, a Hawaiian creation chant of 2,102 lines, begins with darkness. It says out of the darkness was born a male and a female source. And next, line fifteen out of over two thousand, says:

ORONO — The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine plans to host a talk, “Unlocking the language of change: Understanding social-ecological challenges in Maine’s wild shellfish fisheries,” at 3 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 25. All talks in the Mitchell Center’s Sustainability Talks series are free and offered both […]

ORONO — The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, at the University of Maine, will host a talk, “Unlocking the language of change: Understanding social-ecological challenges in Maine’s wild shellfish fisheries,” on Monday,...

Grizzlies wouldn’t be roaming the greater Yellowstone ecosystem if it wasn’t for plentiful food, and the vast wildlands of the national park that offer protections from traps, bullets, chainsaws and

In this second of our three-part series, we look at the effectiveness of environmental conservation programs in the farm bill.

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A NOAA workshop on the proposed national marine sanctuary is being held over the next two days, starting today, and ending on Wednesday, Sept.13.

In a new paper, researchers tracked coral reef health in Hawaii for 20 years — measuring increasing water acidification, land-based pollution, repercussions from a major climate event and rising water temperatures — and illustrated the undeniable contributions of human impact on coral reef health outcomes.