After two storms walloped the Maine coast last January, devastating waterfront communities and causing more than $70 million in damage, Ford Reiche boarded a helicopter to check on nearly two dozen lighthouses.

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Deskcollaboration. Even before President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White Hous

Maine’s lighthouses are under a dire threat from significant coastal storms and sea level rise due to climate change.

The governor wants Maine to be a leader in addressing climate change, and on Tuesday, she introduced the first piece of new legislation in the 132nd legislature aimed at increasing the state's preparedness and resiliency ahead of the next extreme weather event.

Threats from climate change have landed Maine’s iconic lighthouses on an international watchlist. The World Monument Fund says the state's 66 lighthouses face major challenges due to climate change. According to the Gulf of Maine Research Institute,

Scientists may modify their claims as new research and information become available, but that doesn't mean they were initially wrong.

The short answer is no. Humans are unlikely to go extinct due to a 2-4 degree Celsius increase in temperature, but the infrastructure created for our civilization is fragile and would be enormously impacted with deadly results.

Walls of flames, fanned by high winds, roaring across drought-stricken land. That's the scene in Los Angeles now. It also happened in Maine. In late October 1947, massive wildfires swept across the state,

Not every weather fluctuation is demonstrably affected by climate change. But the impact of the steady increase in global temperature is now detectable in many extreme weather events—and likely many of the more normal ones, too, says Justin Mankin, a climate scientist at Dartmouth College.

President-elect Trump’s nominee for Interior secretary, sat for a largely cordial hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on

Dartmouth researchers say zooplankton could help bury carbon in the ocean. The key to that process? Sprinkling clay dust on the surface of the water.

The state of Maine has been tackling climate change for decades. Maine is well-poised to continue that work, says Gayle Zydlewski, director of Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of ...