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Notice the mayors inspection sticker was out of date so the sheriff decided to confront the mayor and the truly weird situation the sheriff drove after the mayor when the mayor the sheriff though if this was just petty politics at play but he said no one is above the law you polled all will then play clothes and not just to have loved this display. You know now the mayor again now facing a felony charge or hearing from the sheriff thats he is working with a magistrate to file that charge right n...

North florida. Millions of people in florida right now are without power. Rescue teams with all sorts of equipment trying to make sure we dont lose anybody. Its impossible to tell who survived. Communication is impossible. These are storms of catastrophic severity. When americans are in need, americans pull together. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. All right. Im chris cuomo. Were in the florida keys. We now know the truth of what Hurricane Irma did to this country. We saw i...

The Lafayette Parish School System is taking applications for the 2024-2025 school year for its Magnet Academy programs.

(Des Moines) Iowans can expect more extreme weather like the 2012 drought thanks to changes in the climate caused by greenhouse gases.  That’s according to a statewide group of Iowa scientists who believe that Iowans should act now to reduce economic costs due to climate change “In a warmer climate, wet years get wetter and…

A new trove of records shows how federal officials wrote off potential risks near Coldwater Creek as “slight,” “minimal” or “low-level”

Though freshwater systems are known to be important indicators for understanding climate change, little has been done to connect the existing science on freshwater bodies in the Arctic in order to determine patterns that will help better understand the region. A University of Maine-led review has tied together the existing research about Arctic freshwater systems’ […]

Luke Goldman was working as an ocean rescue lifeguard on the Jersey Shore when he decided that he wanted to study ecology. Now, he has moved up the East Coast to become a marine protector of a different sort: a researcher at the forefront of using eDNA to try and save the Atlantic cod. After […]

In his latest column, Mickey Friedman lays out how the EPA and General Electric can clean up Housatonic River PCB contamination without relying on the proposed plan to create a toxic waste dump in Lee.

ORONO — The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk about water insecurity and health in the U.S. and Canada, including the effects in rural and Indigenous communities, Monday, Nov...

Reply Dr. George Whitmore "Whit" Hancock, Jr., 79, of Marietta, OH passed away July 14, 2021, in Marietta. He was preceded in death by his parents, George Whitmore Hancock, Sr. and Page Turner Hancock. He is survived by his beloved wife of 41 years, Carole Wylie Hancock, PhD, whom he married August 9, 1980, his sister, Ellen Hancock Wickersham of Atlanta, GA and loving cousins. Born on April 25, 1942, in Richmond, VA, Whit was raised in Hampton and Newport News, VA, where he graduated as presi...