Climate Change Institute

Pascal Bohleber’s findings about ice thickness on Mount Kilimanjaro are featured in Eos, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. Bohleber is an adjunct research assistant professor at the Climate Change Institute. In 2015, he led a team that — for the first time — took ground-penetrating radar to Kilimanjaro’s 6,000-meter-high summit. “It’s like an […]

In 1979 and 1980, the late University of Maine archeologist Brian Robinson collected a range of traditional artifacts on a trip through the Amazonian rainforest in Peru. Robinson, who was an associate professor in UMaine’s Department of Anthropology and the Climate Change Institute, died last fall after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Now, visitors to […]

The Kangerlussuaq region of southwest Greenland is a 3,728-square-mile corridor stretching from the ice sheet to the Labrador Sea. In this area near the top of the world, landscape and ecosystem diversity abounds. Flora and fauna range from microbes in the ice sheet to large herbivores — caribou and musk oxen — living on the […]

Smithsonian Magazine interviewed Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, for a story on the historical role international agreements have played in addressing climate change. In the late 1980s, the Montreal Protocol began the process of closing a hole in the ozone layer caused by ozone-depleting chemicals found in a wide […]

The Portland Press Herald published a feature article on Brenda Hall, a glacial geology professor at the University of Maine, as part of its “Meet” series. The Press Herald interviewed Hall about “her journey from growing up in Standish to being a globe-trotting expert on glacial geology and the stability of ice sheets.” Hall, a […]

The Washington Post reported temperatures in the Arctic are 20 degrees warmer than average for this time of year, according to the Climate Reanalyzer website run by the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. The Sydney Morning Herald also cited the Climate Reanalyzer website in a story on record-setting summer temperatures in the […]

Joseph Kelley, a University of Maine professor of marine geology, spoke with the Associated Press for an article about how salt marshes are disappearing due to rising sea levels. The U.S. Geological Survey recently conducted an assessment of eight of the country’s coastal salt marshes, according to the article. It found that half of the […]

The Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, WLBZ (Channel 2), WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland), Penobscot Bay Pilot and WAGM (Channel 8 in Presque Isle) reported on 2016 Maine drug overdose death figures released by the state attorney general’s office. Maine overdose deaths climbed for the fifth straight year, soaring nearly 40 percent to claim […]

Courtesy of Gregory Zaro In many cities around the world, the ancient past and modern present blend seamlessly into a hundreds-of-years long story of continuous urban growth and decline. In Cusco, Peru, the stone walls of the Inca capital city serve as the foundations of 16th century Spanish colonial buildings which currently house modern restaurants […]

A University of Maine doctoral candidate co-wrote an article that won the International Award for Excellence for The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, Volume 8. Kisei Tanaka, who wrote “Climate Change, Conflict, and Moving Borders” with James Lee of American University, is affiliated with the Climate Change Institute and the Ecology and […]