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 […]
The Washington Post published an interactive map today based on data findings in a new study on how much Americans are sleeping. Or, perhaps better stated, how much Americans are not sleeping. The map breaks down what percentage of people in each county reports getting insufficient sleep at least 15 of the last 30 days. […]
The movie “The Martian” has been critically acclaimed and opened over the weekend to a box-office topping $55 million domestic haul. Movie goers across America have been fascinated by the prospect of an astronaut — played by star Matt Damon — gardening and otherwise hashing out a sustainable life on a foreign planet. But let’s get […]
A team of British researchers found that school children are better able to concentrate and memorize information after having consumed wild blueberries. This news has naturally been well received by wild blueberry harvesters, who can now advertise their crop as a super-student elixir at a time when children are having to overcome more and more […]
Mainers continue to be among the most likely people in America to choose cremation after death, according to new data released this month by the Cremation Association of North America. The trade group found that in 2014, 71.2 percent of Mainers who died opted to have their bodies cremated instead of buried in a coffin. That’s […]
Wednesday’s rainstorm dominated Maine headlines, setting a daily rainfall record in Portland with nearly 6 inches of precipitation and pounding Searsport with nearly 10 inches. Resultant flooding across the state of Maine, cutting off roadways and reaching almost as high as the windows of passing cars, was well documented. But for those who are still pumping out their basements […]
