Protesters drop pants for climate change at Massachusetts state house

The group was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and indecent exposure.

U.N. chief says fossil fuels ‘incompatible with human survival,’ calls for credible exit strategy

Some oil executives suggest that fossil fuel firms can keep up production if they find a way to capture planet-warming carbon emissions. Antonio Guterres vehemently disagrees.

Our View: The effects of the global climate crisis will be local

Sea rise, extreme temperatures expected to send more people to inland Maine, climate expert says

Nathan Phillips, a professor at Boston University, told an audience at a two-day conference in Skowhegan this week that rising sea levels and temperature extremes in the South will displace millions and force migration inland and to the North.

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels are highest in more than 4 million years

Not only is carbon dioxide continuing to increase in Earth's atmosphere, it's increasing faster than it was a decade or 2 ago.

Delegates working to end global plastics pollution agree to craft draft treaty

A coalition of governments and environmental groups want to end plastic pollution altogether by 2040 by slashing production and limiting some chemicals used in making plastics.

New wood heat options come with climate trade-offs

Maine’s forests are crucial to both absorbing carbon emissions and providing alternatives to high oil costs.

Supreme Court limits federal power over wetlands, boosts property rights over clean water

By a 5-4 vote, the justices boosted property rights over concerns about clean water, writing that wetlands can only be regulated if they have a 'continuous surface connection' to larger, regulated bodies of water.

Commentary: The climate crisis is Maine’s storm of the century

But with the Mills administration’s four-year climate plan and much-needed support at the federal level, we’re ready to meet this moment.

Extreme weather caused 2 million deaths, $4 trillion in losses over last 50 years, UN says

The World Meteorological Organization said most of the economic damage between 1970 and 2021 came in the U.S. – totaling $1.7 trillion – but 9 in 10 deaths worldwide took place in developing countries.