Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

After teaching ornithology at a Maine camp in the summer of 1969, Stephen W. Kress grew obsessed with bringing puffins back to the state. He was young, yes, but was he foolish? He knew it would be ...

ST GEORGE, Maine — Maine has a puffin population thanks to one determined researcher who hatched a plan more than 50 years ago. His idea was to take newly hatched puffins—also known as pufflings—from ...

Where would Maine be without moose, loons or puffins? Icons of our wild woods, lakes and ocean, they support a massive industry of kitsch, like the chocolate moose, the Welcome to the Looney Bin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atlantic Puffins were once almost extinct from Maine’s coast, their only native habitat in the United States. But after the ...

BREMEN — The Seabird Institute announces the first annual Puffin Palooza! This family friendly event will occur on Saturday, July 9 between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. at the Todd Wildlife Sanctuary in Bremen.

Project Puffin tactics are already deployed against these new threats. For example, the Bermuda petrel lives on a group of tiny, low-lying atolls off the Bermuda coast, where it is vulnerable to mere ...

Every summer, a handful of interns and research assistants are selected from hundreds of applicants to camp in primitive conditions on a tiny, treeless island several miles off Maine's coast. Their ...

Rising temperatures and more extreme weather are putting large swaths of the Earth’s population at risk, with the latest U.N. Climate Report declaring that more than 1 million species of plants and ...