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Research from the New England Forestry Foundation suggests there is potential to sequester and store even more carbon with improved forest management, conservation and expanded markets for wood — but it would take more investment to achieve.

More than 150,000 passengers have missed their flights because of the Lufthansa strike. There were considerably greater problems at the hubs in Frankfurt and Munich than at the airports in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States holds a legislative hearing on three bills of interest in Indian Country.

Several members of the House indigenous affairs subcommittee were perplexed by the limits the 1980 Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act imposed on the tribes.

The leaders of the four Wabanaki Indian tribes in Maine appeared jointly before members of Congress for the first time in more than 40 years on Thursday, testifying in support of a bill that they said is necessary to restore their tribal sovereignty.

A federal judge has blocked a state law that sought to restrict how Canadian logging truck drivers operate in Maine.

New bill would fund more experts and programs to combat the invasive bug that strips trees and causes people to itch all over.

New bill would fund more experts and programs to combat the invasive bug that strips trees and causes people to itch all over.

GO Lab Inc. plans to employ more than 100 people at the former Madison Paper Industries mill, which shuttered three years ago.

The FOR/Maine Coalition has been named by the Economic Development Administration (EDA) as a finalist in the $1 billion Build Back Better Regional Challenge. The University of Maine was awarded the $500,000 grant to support the coalition to further develop and scale the forest bioeconomy in Maine and will advance to Phase 2 of the […]