The filter will get its first use next month in a pilot project at a landfill in central Maine.

CNN: Filter cleans arsenic-tainted water

Nikolaidis has been researching arsenic for the past four years, having come across the problem while working at a contaminated landfill in central Maine.

CNN: Filter cleans arsenic-tainted water

Case in point: a small public school district in central Maine just announced plans to give away iPad 2s to all 300 of its kindergarten students .

FORBES: When Kindergarteners are Issued iPad 2s, has iPad Hype Jumped the Shark?

The Wild River Wilderness is a beautiful and unspoiled part of the White Mountain National Forest, located just a few miles from the Maine border in central-eastern New Hampshire.

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In 2007, the roughly 1, 000 year-round residents of Vinalhaven, a long and narrow island located about 15 miles off the coast of central Maine in the Penobscot Bay, decided that building a wind farm on the island was the only way they would survive endlessly elevated electricity prices.

FORBES: Wind Power's Worst Enemy: Noise

In all, there were more than 100 reports of severe weather across the region on Sunday, mostly in a swath from central New York to Maine.

NPR: Out With A Whimper: Storms Over In East, South