Built and deployed by Saildrone, a California-based marine research and defense company, these uncrewed vessels traversed the gulf’s waters in 2023 and 2024 to map parts of the ocean floor.

In July of 2005, I wrote a column about the posters and signs people installed around the islands and how they were the best way to find out what was…

The most revealing passage in Murray Carpenter’s book Sweet and Deadly appears toward the end, almost as an aside.

Upon discovering the museum collection lacked a suitable lobster for display, a staffer with ties to lobstering donated the specimen, along with four others for its permanent collection.

Over its long relationship with its nearby human inhabitants, the Passamaquoddy Bay—located between Downeast Maine and southwest New Brunswick—has traditionally served as an international connection point.

In the foreword to his new book, Bernd Heinrich explains the reasoning behind its title. “Ensconced for forty years in the Maine woods,” the famed biologist and author writes, he has explored his forest retreat, focusing on the “common uncommon,” natural phenomena that have “not been sufficiently noticed.”

This Waypoints spread shows data on changing air temperatures in Maine and water temperatures in the Gulf of Maine.

This Waypoints page looks at the state’s housing challenges through three different lenses: affordability, existing housing supply, and the need for new housing.

Similar to doctors, researchers know that to combat climate change they must first do no harm. That’s why for the next two years researchers with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution…

In late May, NOAA Fisheries announced a new research initiative with the Northeast fishing industry to gather information about the Atlantic mackerel, a fish so common that it is often…