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By PATRICK WHITTLE

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — After back-to-back storms lashed the Northeast in January, rental properties Haim Levy owns in coastal Hampton, New Hampshire, were hammered by nearly two feet of water, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage...

By PATRICK WHITTLE

PORTLAND, Maine — A federal appeals court has sided with commercial fishermen who say proposed restrictions aimed at saving an imperiled species of whale could put them out of business.The fishermen harvest lobsters and crabs off New England and...

By PATRICK WHITTLE

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — On a breezy spring day, scientists and conservationists methodically conducted experiments near 15 North Atlantic right whales that occasionally spouted and surfaced in a bay south of Boston.The pod of adults and calves is about...

By PATRICK WHITTLE

Game wardens located two Maine women on a remote backroad in rural Maine, in a car that was out of gas in subzero temperatures, after a planned trip to the mall took them hundreds of miles from home.Authorities located Kimberly Pushard, 51, and Angela...

By PATRICK WHITTLE

PORTLAND, Maine — The waters off New England, which are home to rare whales and most of the American lobster fishing industry, logged the second-warmest year on record last year.The Gulf of Maine, a body of water about the size of Indiana that touches...

By PATRICK WHITTLE

PORTLAND, Maine — The warming of the waters off the East Coast has come at an invisible, but very steep cost — the loss of microscopic organisms that make up the base of the ocean’s food chain.The growing warmth and saltiness of the Gulf of Maine off...

By PATRICK WHITTLE

PORTLAND, Maine — A federal panel voted on Thursday to offer new protections to some deep-sea corals in the Atlantic Ocean but held off on protecting others so it can get more information first.The New England Fishery Management Council proposals...