MAINE MONITOR • November 10, 2024
Maine salt marshes are a key tool in the fight against climate change. For centuries, many of Maine’s coastal marshes were able to slowly build their surface, moving and growing to avoid rising seas. But as a warming world causes oceans to rise more rapidly and storms to intensify, the marshes are having a harder time keeping up — and as development presses in, they have little place to go. In this podcast Kate Cough, editor at The Maine Monitor, and Steve Pinette, a retired geologist and a leader in efforts to protect Scarborough Marsh, talk about the impact of climate change on Maine’s marshes.