Loons are an indicator species, so a healthy population will give information on whether local ecosystems are stable.

The state’s true character can be found down dirt roads without traffic lights and inside warmly lit farmhouse inns.

Mainers who visited the beaches this summer might have noticed a slimy, foul-smelling red algae on shore. This is Dasysiphonia japonica, an invasive algae species that first appeared here in 2007 and ...