Less than 20 minutes from downtown Portland, I set out to experience three distinct beaches. Two Lights State Park has the classic cascading cliffside of rocks where ocean waves crash along the unique ...

Maine nature writer and photographer Sandra Mitchell has always enjoyed animals, nature and wildlife, taking every ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. From vast forests, to sprawling fields and farmlands, to vibrant working ...

A couple of weeks ago, one of my advanced placement environmental science students, Quintin, who happens to work on a lobster boat during his free time, brought in a tiny treasure to show me. He had ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Tyler Refsland is the manager of applied ecology at the Wild Seed Project.

Editor's note. The following is a reprised edition of Nature News, first published in July 2023. There is one animal present in our greater backyard that I urge everyone to try to see at least once in ...

Helping students develop a love of place at an early age builds community. It was a perfect spring day in May as my students settled onto their stools, made of overturned plastic buckets. In our ...

Less than an hour from downtown Portland, National Geographic Photographer Michael George finds surfing, river sanctuaries, and a Civil War-era fort. Two Lights State Park spans 41 acres of rocky ...