Maine woman, 29, is missing after getting into a car in Times Square

Maine woman, 29, is missing after getting into a car in Times Square on Monday while in NYC to visit her boyfriend Christine Hammontree was seen on surveillance footage from the McDonald’s in Times Square getting into a vehicle just after 2am on Monday WABC reported that the car Hammontree entered with a man and … Read more

Rare YELLOW lobster named Banana is a one-in-30 million catch that was born with a genetic mutation

Catch of the millennia! Rare YELLOW lobster named Banana is a one-in-30 million find born with a genetic mutation that causes pigment reduction A Maine fisherman caught the yellow lobster and donated it to science Researchers have named it Banana and are now caring for the crustacean Banana was born with a condition called leucism that … Read more

New tracking system may predict where the next coronavirus hotspots will be

A new global surveillance system may be able to predict where the next coronavirus hotspots will be.   Developed by researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois, it can track where the virus is, where it is going, how quickly it will arrive and whether or not it is accelerating.  Its most recent report claims Wisconsin is on … Read more

Climate change: Arctic temperatures are 12°F above 1990s ‘norm’

The Arctic’s sweltering 2020 continues in earnest with temperatures last weekend reaching more than 5° (12°F) above the norm for the 1990s.   This alarming recording, from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanlayzer, is an average figure for the entire Arctic, an area measuring some 7.7 million square miles. In some isolated pockets, the temperature is … Read more

Arctic temperatures are 12°F above normal for 1990s

The Arctic’s sweltering 2020 continues in earnest with temperatures last weekend reaching more than 5° (12°F) above the norm for the 1990s.   This alarming recording, from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanlayzer, is an average figure for the entire Arctic, an area measuring some 7.7 million square miles. In some isolated pockets, the temperature is … Read more

Can YOU find your way out of these amazing corn mazes?

Can YOU find your way out of these corn mazes? The amazing digital recreations of real-life puzzles for Covid-secure entertainment (and worry – we’ve got the solutions!) Every fall (that’s Autumn for Britons), farms across the U.S transform their cornfields into interactive mazes  Here CG artists have digitally recreated some of the toughest and most … Read more

Donald Trump heads for rallies in New Hampshire and Maine after outbreak on Mike Pence’s staff

Donald Trump heads for rallies in New Hampshire and Maine after new poll shows him tied with Joe Biden in TEXAS as White House scrambles to contain virus outbreak among Mike Pence’s staff The president is holding a string of rallies in the final spring to Election Day His first event is in New Hampshire, … Read more

Coronavirus US: Maine wedding now linked to 123 cases

An indoor wedding held in Maine has been linked to 123 COVID-19 cases and an outbreak in two other towns after one woman who was infected by a guest died.  The venue owner has since admitted that they misunderstood local capacity rules and overbooked the event.  The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (MCDC) … Read more

CDC report reveals how four overnight summer camps in Maine prevented coronavirus outbreaks

Four overnight summer camps in Maine put interventions in place that helped prevent coronavirus transmission and outbreaks, a new report finds. Children who tested positive had to delay arriving, campers quarantined for two weeks and they were frequently tested and screened, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed on Wednesday. Among more than … Read more

Maine lobster captain captures and helps heal seagull he bonded with over 15 years

Gull-friend! Maine lobster captain visited by a seagull almost every day for the past 15 years captures and rescues the bird to save its life after it injured its leg Captain John Makowksy has been friends with the bird – who he named Red Eye – since it first flew up on his boat in … Read more