Category Archives: Buildings and Places

11 animated maps showing how sea level rise could change the shapes of Maine towns

Nonprofit climate news and advocacy group Climate Central has released a series of multi-layered interactive maps designed to illustrate how various levels of sea level rise may affect coastal communities all around the United States. The group’s latest mapping tool, titled “Mapping Choices,” allows you to enter any zip code or U.S. city and compare — side-by-side […]

There are no national monuments in Maine. Would Obama defy LePage to create one?

Maine Gov. Paul LePage sent letters to President Barack Obama and members of the state’s congressional delegation to express his opposition to any efforts to designate certain Gulf of Maine and forest areas as national monuments. In question are an undersea mountain range named Cashes Ledge and its environs, which conservationists consider a crucial refuge for the […]

New sea-level rise forecast is alarming: Here are 10 maps showing how Maine’s coastline could change

According to a report this week in Slate, a team led by the former lead NASA scientist on climate change is now forecasting a much more rapid and dramatic rise in sea level than was previously expected. James Hansen’s 16-person team of researchers has concluded that, as Slate reports, “glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica will […]