In much of America, especially in the normally cold north, the country experienced the winter months without, well, winter. In the parka strongholds of Burlington, Vermont and Portland, Maine, the thermometer never dropped below zero. The state of Minnesota called the past three months “the lost winter,” warmer than the infamous “year without winter” in … Read more
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — After back-to-back storms battered the Northeast in January, rental properties Haim Levy his owner on the coast of Hampton, New Hampshire, were hit by nearly two feet of water, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage and forcing him to evacuate tenants to safer ground. “Put them in hotels … Read more
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — As native trees in the Pacific Northwest die off due to climate changes, the US Forest Service, Portland, Oregon and citizen groups around Puget Sound are turning to a deceptively simple climate adaptation strategy called “assisted migration.” As the world’s climate warms, tree growing areas in the Northern Hemisphere are predicted … Read more