The emerald ash borer, an invasive insect and threat to Maine ash trees, was confirmed on Mount Desert Island.

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The final day for shell fishing in the family area of West Falmouth Harbor closed for the season on March 23. Christina Lovely, biologist and fisheries technician, said the area ...

ORONO, MAINE-- On a winter afternoon, under a Maine sky thick with clouds yet strangely bright, the temperature outside reads 15 degrees -- and that doesn't account for the wind chill. The air is ...

Paleontologists have discovered a newly identified fish species in Australia so well-preserved that they could determine its last meal — dating back up to 16 million years to the Miocene Epoch.

“It’s all about the fishing and not at all about the fishing,” Bonnie Holding former Casting for Recovery Maine program coordinator Editor’s note: This column originally appeared in the ...

There are two active volcanoes in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Mauna Loa and Kilauea, but Kilauea is the real "must-see." A 4,000-foot-tall mountain, Kilauea has been active since Jan. 3, 1983.

I could snorkel from shore, or kayak out to a sandbar and snorkel at the reef there. I met turtles, nurse sharks, barracuda and a new kind of fish ….

Known as the 'hermit of Budelli,' an island off the coast of Sardinia, Mauro unfortunately never met Oak Bay area's John Kergan, the 'hermit of Trial Island' from the late 1800s. If they had they ...