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• Publix, Ahold highlight new sustainable products and initiatives during Earth Month

  U.S. grocery chains featuring new sustainable and traceable seafood.

  Press Clips | Seafood Source

• Spring ocean temperatures are shockingly hot around the globe. Scientists aren’t sure what happens next.

  Warmer oceans have negative impacts on marine life and coastal ecosystems and drive extreme weather patterns, more ice melt and rising sea levels.

  Press Clips | USA TODAY

• Lewiston students learn coding through robotics partnership

  The program is unique in that it brings together educators and researcher to create activities which connect math and computing.

  Press Clips | Lewiston Sun Journal

• Sarah Long travels to Antarctica: The connection between the warming Gulf of Maine and the Arctic

  In January of this year, while it was still summer in the southern hemisphere, I packed my bags and made the days long trip to …

  Press Clips | WMTW

• Gulf of Maine sees second-hottest year on record, report shows, ‘getting to the edge of habitability’ - The Boston Globe

  The acceleration in warming could bring mass mortality events for marine species, threaten New England’s food supply, and contribute to rising sea levels, experts warned.

  Press Clips | BostonGlobe.com

• New report finds last year was second hottest on record in the Gulf of Maine — just behind 2021

  A new report from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute shows that last year was the second warmest year on record in the Gulf of …

  Press Clips | Maine Public

• Last year was second warmest on record in Gulf of Maine

  The average sea surface temperature in 2022 fell short by less than half a degree of setting a new mark for the hottest year, according …

  Press Clips | Press Herald

• Waters off New England had 2nd warmest year on record in '22

  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The waters off New England, which are home to rare whales and most of the American lobster fishing industry, logged the …

  Press Clips | AP NEWS

• Rising sea levels are causing 'sunny day flooding' along Maine's coast

  High tides are now occurring as often as 18 times a year, typically in late fall and early winter, and late spring and early summer. …

  Press Clips | Maine Public

• More than century of daily temperature readings in Boothbay Harbor show the warming trend caused by climate change

  Boothbay Harbor has seen an increase of 4-5 degrees on average, a sign of the ramifications warming from climate change is having in Maine.

  Press Clips | The Maine Monitor