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FEW PEOPLE in the United States had heard of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)--the high-security biolab in Wuhan, China, that does cutting-edge research on coronaviruses--until mid-April, when the Trump [...]

Fixing the human genome is the easy part. The hard part is knowing when to stop. THE FIRST STEP IS a no-brainer. Say you are one of the tens of [...]

The new poster child for climate change had his coming-out party in June 2012, when Petey the puffin chick first went live into thousands of homes and schools all over [...]

Every fall at Maine's Common Ground Country Fair, the Lollapalooza of sustainable agriculture, John Bunker sets out a display of eccentric apples. Last September, once again, they covered every possible [...]

ROBIN SEELEY SAW them back in the summer of 2008, in Cobscook Bay, a pristine Maine estuary near the Canadian border. 'All of a sudden this small fleet of blue [...]

The article discusses the conspiracy theories that the covid-19 disease was from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China, and U.S. President Donald Trump's move to blame China for the pandemic as a way to hide his administration's inept handling of the virus. Also cited are how the WIV project was financed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the leaked communications showing that the U.S. failed to provide support to WIV when it asked assistance.

The article discusses environmental conditions in the Gulf of Maine as of May 2014, focusing on a trend of abnormally high water temperatures and its implications. Topics include a decline in puffin populations as studied by Stephen Kress of the Audubon Society's Project Puffin, the effects of an earlier-than-normal phytoplankton bloom in 2012, and the impact of the ecosystem disruption on seafood harvests.

The article looks at the efforts of entrepreneur John Bunker to promote the growing of heirloom varieties of apples in the U.S. Topics include his mail-order company Fedco Trees, the genetics of apple seeds, and the benefits of preserving agricultural biodiversity. Several apple varieties are mentioned including the Harrison, the Fletcher Sweet, and the Snow.

The article discusses massive industrial scale harvesting of rockweed in North Atlantic intertidal water zones of the U.S. and Canada. Topics include harvesting operations at Maine estuary near the Canadian border, environmental concerns raised by Cornell University Shoal Marine Laboratory biologist Ribin Seeley Saw as well as flat periwinkle snail habitats at Cobscook Bay. Also mentioned are rockweed applications to garden mulching, biostimulant contents and extract spray to tomato plants.