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Penelope Overton
Staff Writer
Penny Overton is excited to be the Portland Press Herald’s first climate reporter. Since joining the paper in 2016, she has written about Maine’s lobster and cannabis industries, covered state politics and spent a fellowship year exploring the impact of climate change on the lobster fishery with the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team. Before moving to Maine, she has covered politics, environment, casino gambling and tribal issues in Florida, Connecticut, and Arizona. Her favorite assignments allow her to introduce readers to unusual people, cultures, or subjects. When off the clock, Penny is usually getting lost in a new book at a local coffeehouse, watching foreign crime shows or planning her family’s next adventure.
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Human evolution may prevent us from solving climate change, UMaine study finds
A new study by an international team led by evolutionary biologist Tim Waring says that humans are good at extracting resources from the Earth but struggle to cooperate on a scale necessary to fight worldwide environmental threats.
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White Christmas is becoming more of a dream than a reality in Maine
The state’s winters are getting warmer and wetter, and there’ll be no white Christmas this year, again.
Posted inMaine
Powerful storm latest example of bad weather made worse by climate change
The unseasonably warm weather that Maine is experiencing due to an increase in heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere gave the wet winter storm its powerful punch, scientists say.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Proposed rules would allow any commercial farm contaminated by PFAS to apply for financial assistance
Maine so far has focused on farms that were contaminated through the spreading of wastewater sludge.
Posted inMaine, News
As Casco Bay warms, climate change alters its chemistry in unexpected ways
Casco Bay remains healthy overall, but the near-shore waters face a plethora of threats, especially stormwater pollution.
Posted inMaine, Nation / World, New England, News
Climate change has brought more extreme rain, snow to Maine
Sea level rise remains a top concern as the climate warms, but the increasing frequency of outsized precipitation is already having statewide impacts.
Posted inMaine, Uncategorized
Maine Climate Council reports progress in fight against climate change
Efforts to reduce fossil fuel use are mostly on track, although the shift to electric vehicles has been slower than hoped.
Posted inMaine
New England’s wetter, warmer future is already here
The fifth National Climate Assessment includes data showing the region is seeing extreme heat on land and at sea, especially in the Gulf of Maine, and more frequent heavy rainstorms than any other region of the country.
Posted inMaine, Nation / World, News
Lewiston joins growing list of U.S. communities living with gun trauma
Experts acknowledge that every mass shooting is different but say the Maine city is likely to feel lingering effects of anguish for years.