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Maine Voices: Our forests offer a valuable buffer against climate change

Por: Portland Press Herald Opinion October 24, 2022

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Our thoughts are with the millions of people suffering from the force and fury of recent hurricanes, especially those who have lost loved ones. Because the intensity of the storms is determined largely by the temperature of the ocean waters, a warmer climate causes the storms to be stronger and to travel farther north, in our case along the Atlantic coast. An aerial view of Upper Hathan Bog in Coburn Gore Township, part of the Forest Society of... + full article



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