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AP Lobstermen and their families attend a rally to protest Maine Gov. Janet Mills' support for offshore wind projects, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in Augusta, Maine. Last week, President Joe Biden told federal regulators that to combat global warming, they should speed up the deployment of offshore wind-energy turbines, with the goal of supplying enough to power 10 million homes by the end of this decade. Wind power advocates in Maine say that ratifies their argument that the state must get into the game now or get left behind. But the White House directive is also amplifying fears among fishe...

Listen • 5:17 The number of people moving to the state of Maine rose sharply in 2020. Many were fleeing dense urban areas and lured by the prospect of working from home. Fred Bever of Maine Public Radio looks at how these COVID-19 refugees have upended the state’s housing market and may help reverse Maine’s long-running population decline. This article was originally published on WBUR.org. Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

The U.S. formally rejoined the Paris Climate Accord last week, and the Biden administration is now preparing new carbon-dioxide reduction goals.

The fight against climate change has long focused on scaling back humanity’s emissions of planet-warming carbon-dioxide. But a movement is growing to think

During the pandemic, Maine's seafood harvest is struggling to find a market.