Snow blankets Portland, Maine, on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024. A major winter storm bringing heavy snow and freezing rain to some communities spread across New England on Sunday morning, sending residents scurrying to pull out their shovels and snowblowers to clear sidewalks and driveways. (AP Photo/Patrick Whittle)

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has withdrawn a proposed regulation intended to protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale from vessel strikes. The decision has left conservationists and Maine’s lobster industry expressing disappointment,

NOAA has withdrawn a proposed right whale protection rule that would have required more ships to slow down in more areas.

Crews entered frigid water to save a Maine dog who fell through the ice on Cobbossee Stream in Gardiner on Tuesday.

Withdrawal of an environmental rule by NOAA with an estimated economic impact of $46.2 million along the Eastern Seaboard from Florida to Maine has drawn bipartisan

A group of scientists saw over 75 North Atlantic right whales gathered in the Gulf of Maine. Here's what we know.

The whales were seen “in all directions: at the surface, swimming, and diving,” said Kate Laemmle, associate research technician in the Anderson Cabot Center who was aboard the aerial survey flights.

The proposed speed limits would have impacted all ferry service to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, as well as ferries from Boston to Provincetown.

Sturgeon spottings have become more common in rivers in Centeral and Southern Maine in the last four or five years. “One thing we know about sturgeon is that they like to come back to the river where they were spawned,” explains Lankshear. And now there’s an added bonus for strurgeon making a comeback in Downeast waters.

Dozens of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales were spotted in the Gulf of Maine this week, researchers from the New England Aquarium said Thursday. An aerial survey team from the New England Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life spotted the whales on Jan.

Federal agencies say DOT plan for Machias dike likely to have “significant adverse effects” on fish, marsh. Even as a sprawling new multi-town collaboration embarks on a journey to reach consensus around a Machias dike replacement, a federal environmental agency has put up roadblocks to any option other than a bridge.

A La Niña winter just started, but it isn’t expected to last long. National forecasters are already looking ahead to the spring season.