When you live on an island, a task as simple as buying food requires forethought and logistical prowess, sure signs of adulting.

The Gulf of Maine is changing again, but this time it’s much more rapid. The rate of recent warming far exceeds what we’ve seen anywhere in the ocean, and so we have an exclusive front-row seat at the premier screening of the Climate Change Show.

A project that has been talked about in Bath for at least a decade is getting closer to becoming a reality. Early this spring, the Bath City Council gave the green light to finalize the design of and start the permitting process for a public park and pathway system along the Kennebec River.

“Them devil carts are injurious and run over hens and raise up ructions generally.”

—Abiel O. Curtis, 1906

The new Schoodic Marine Center is opening soon for its first season and could boost visitation as well as facilitate on-the-water education and research opportunities in the less-visited part of Acadia National Park.

Kevin Schneider came in as Acadia’s new superintendent in January, at the start of the park’s centennial year.

If young Bernd was sometimes a reluctant recruit on his father’s collecting expeditions, he came to love the study of nature.

Mussel larvae can recognize and respond to a broad range of odor cues when deciding whether to settle in wild beds or on aquaculture lines.

With 1 foot of sea level rise, the 10-year storm of the past will cause the same damage as the storm of the century.