Dr. Amy Butler with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the early polar vortex disruption is unusual and ...

Officials warn that if regional Integrated Ocean Observing System readings go dark, coastal forecasts will become less precise, endangering commercial fishermen, cargo ships and coastal communities.

Only days into the 2025 season, fishermen in the northern Gulf of Maine are told to stop harvesting sea scallops until NOAA adopts new catch limits recommended months ago. Federal regulators have ...

U.S. fishing industries, both commercial and recreational, rely on healthy coastal areas. Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images Healthy coastal ecosystems play crucial roles in the U.S.

Maine’s fishermen, economy, coastal communities, students and future are all at risk. Reports recently came out from a variety of major news agencies that officials within the Trump administration ...

The grant to restore a tidal salt marsh was canceled after Gov. Janet Mills publicly sparred with President Donald Trump, the state says in a lawsuit. The state of Maine has sued the Trump ...

NEWSCASTLE, Maine (WGME) — For nearly 65 years, a Maine woman has been a weather watcher for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. Arlene Cole is 92 years old and still tracking the weather ...

Federal fisheries officials said Wednesday that the rope found on a dead right whale that washed ashore on Martha's Vineyard last month is from Maine. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

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