Climate Change Institute

Researchers at the University of Maine and the University of Maine Farmington (UMF) have received a grant of $29,996 to facilitate development of a circular food system that promotes value-added processing of rural agricultural surplus and by-products to address food waste and food insecurity challenges. The project is funded by the University of Maine System […]

CBS News talked with Andrew Pershing, a University of Maine associate professor with the Climate Change Institute, about warming trends in the northern Atlantic Ocean for a story about the Warming Stripes model of climate change. Pershing notes that the waters off the East Coast of the U.S., including the Gulf of Maine, are warming […]

Eos reported on a study led by Dominic Winski, a faculty member with the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, that documents seasonal sea salt and sea ice variability in a South Pole ice core that reflects changes over the last 11,400 years. The study was published in Geophysical Research Letters.

Cindy Isenhour, a University of Maine associate professor, spoke with New Hampshire Public Radio’s WBUR about donations of unusable items to charity thrift shops.

The Geographical Society of London was founded in 1830 as an institution to promote the advancement of geographical science. Like many learned societies at the time it started as a dining club in London where members held informal dinner debates on current scientific issues and ideas. Under the patronage of King William IV, we later […]

25 Years After Deadly Disaster, Climate Change May Make Everest More Dangerous Than Ever Melissa Smith May. 11, 2021 10:33AM EST Adventure Martin Jernberg / Unsplash On May 10, 1996, an unexpected storm engulfed the summit of Mt. Everest, killing eight climbers. At the time, it was the deadliest disaster in the mountain’s history. Twenty-five […]

Maine Public interviewed University of Maine faculty Darren Ranco, director of Native American Programs, and Jacquelyn Gill, an associate professor of paleoecology, about a new study that reveals the historical role of Indigenous peoples in natural resource management and environmental stewardship. Findings suggest that Indigenous people should be centered in resource management and conservation to […]

Sea ice cover in the Southern Hemisphere is extremely variable, from summer to winter and from millennium to millennium, according to a University of Maine-led study. Overall, sea ice has been on the rise for about 10,000 years, but with some exceptions to this trend. Dominic Winski, a research assistant professor at the UMaine Climate […]

What triggered the change in climate that caused the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) — the largest expansion of ice cover across the planet in the last ice age — remains a mystery, one that Zander Roman of Belfast wants to help solve. When he begins his paleoclimate Ph.D. program at the University of Maine, Roman […]

WVII (Channel 7) talked with Rebecca Champagne, a Ph.D. candidate in ecology and environmental sciences at the University of Maine and editor-in-chief of the journal SPIRE, and Daniel Dixon, sustainability director at UMaine, about the Earth Day release of the fifth issue of SPIRE, The Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability.