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  • SubmersibleEnvironment

    The missing Titan sub search has passed the critical 96-hour mark: ‘Just a needle in a haystack situation’

    By Patrick Whittle, Holly Ramer, and others
  • This photo provided by OceanGate Expeditions shows a submersible vessel named Titan used to visit the wreckage site of the Titanic. In a race against the clock on the high seas, an expanding international armada of ships and airplanes searched Tuesday, June 20, 2023, for the submersible that vanished in the North Atlantic while taking five people down to the wreck of the Titanic. (OceanGate Expeditions via AP)

    Underwater noises heard during massive search for missing Titan sub with billionaire U.K. businessman among 5 aboard

    By Patrick Whittle, Holly Ramer, and others
  • Roger PayneSuccess

    Roger Payne, the scientist who helped create modern environmentalism by discovering that whales can sing, dies at 88

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A seal hunter drags a harp seal back to his snowmobile during the annual seal hunt on an ice floe on April 2, 2005, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada. A Canadian company has pleaded guilty Monday, June 5, 2023, to violating federal law by illegally selling seal oil capsules to American customers. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP, File)Environment

    A Canadian company just pleaded guilty to selling seal blubber as a nutritional supplement and will pay a $20,000 fine

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • ElversRetail

    Baby eels are so valuable to Asian companies that Maine fishermen get $2,000 per pound for them

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • Fishers prepare market stalls in the late nightEnvironment

    ‘It’s a disaster. A total, complete disaster.’ Fishers fuming over new quotas to limit haddock catches

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • 07 September 2020, Brandenburg, Sieversdorf: In the back light the shadow of a tick (Ixodida) can be seen on a leaf. Here the bloodsucking ectoparasite is waiting for its prey. Many tick species are important disease carriers. Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images)Health

    Warmer weather means the start of tick season— and an increased threat of Lyme disease

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • FILE – An Atlantic salmon leaps out of the water at a Cooke Aquaculture farm pen on Oct. 11, 2008, near Eastport, Maine. A New Hampshire group wants to be the first to bring offshore fish farming to the waters off New England by raising salmon and trout in open-ocean pens miles from land, but critics fear the plan raises environmental concerns. Blue Water Fisheries wants to place 40 submersible fish pens on two sites totaling nearly a square mile about 7.5 miles off Newburyport, Massachusetts, according to federal documents from June 2022. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)Environment

    A New England offshore fish farm would be the first of its kind but environmentalists aren’t thrilled

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 26: Pedestrians walk by a Chipotle restaurant on April 26, 2022 in San Francisco, California. Chipotle Mexican Grill will report its first quarter earnings today after the closing bell. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Finance

    Chipotle agrees to pay $240,000 to ex employees after shutting down their restaurant when they tried to unionize

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • EAST MACHIAS, ME – OCTOBER 6: A salmon swims in a tank at the East Machias Aquatic Research Center in East Machias on Tuesday, October 6, 2015. The hatchery is sited along the East Machias River and cycles the river water through the hatchery in an attempt to imprint the river’s characteristics upon the salmon as they are raised at the hatchery. Salmon runs are down in most rivers in Maine and researchers think the reason may be the disappearacne of their food source off Greenland and Atlantic Canada, where Maine’s salmon go to feed. (Photo by Gregory Rec/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)Environment

    The last wild Atlantic salmon in the U.S. can coexist with dams, federal government says

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A conductor makes sure all is clear as the Amtrak Downeaster passenger train pulls out of the station, Dec. 14, 2021, in Freeport, Maine. Riders on the Amtrak train that runs from Maine to Boston will soon have to hold off on buying alcoholic beverages during the 35-mile stretch of the trip that goes through New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)Lifestyle

    Amtrak is trying to figure out how to serve alcohol on a train that runs through New Hampshire after the state made a fuss

    By Kathy McCormack, Patrick Whittle, and others
  • Sandbar sharks swim next to a person snorkeling in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Hadera, Israel, Monday, Nov. 21, 2022.Environment

    UN members agree to protect marine life in high seas for first time: ‘The ocean is not a limitless resource’

    By Christina Larson, Patrick Whittle, and others
  • Maine lobstermanSuccess

    Maine lobstermen snipped by inflation as 2022 results fall nearly 50%: ‘It’s getting pretty costly to do what we do’

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • A worker with the Pebble Mine project digs in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska near the village of Iliamma, Alaska, July 13, 2007.Environment

    The federal government just shut down a proposed gold mine in Alaska after a decade-long fight because it would have hurt the ‘unrivaled’ salmon economy

    By Becky Bohrer, Patrick Whittle, and others
  • Confiscated shark finsEnvironment

    America is about to ban the shark fin trade that kills millions each year as 500 species are threatened with extinction

    By Joshua Goodman, Patrick Whittle, and others