Beneath the ocean, a world of mountains

There are mountains in the sea. From tens of thousands of extinct volcanoes rising thousands of meters from the ocean … More

A Plant Love Story

“Sometimes, when I’m walking along the rocky shore, Spartina far from my mind, I encounter a handful of shoots in … More

A report on the Gulf of Maine 2050 International Symposium, hosted by the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine … More

The climate is changing, but not everywhere the same. There are some locations, because of their topography or geography or … More

Sheepscot River, Maine – To a girl who grew up reading poetry and playing in Allegheny streams, a storyteller who … More

By mid-November on the Maine coast, the great migration of shorebirds is complete and the warblers and other songbirds have … More

The Damariscotta River oyster piles are the largest middens on the East Coast north of Florida. Why are they so … More

On October 30, NOAA Fisheries Greater Atlantic Region launched the International Year of the Salmon on the East Coast at … More

The return of alewives, native migratory fish, to Maine rivers and streams is an annual spring event and the focus … More

The sand, smoothed by the tide, glitters with flecks of mica and quartz. The beach ends at an outcropping of … More