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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.

Darren Ranco says Indigenous peoples should be part of land use decisions, including whether to expand the quarantine zone for the emerald ash borer in northern Maine. “We have to be at the table because proof is in the pudding,” says the University of Maine associate professor of anthropology, chair of Native American Programs, and […]

The Portland Press Herald highlighted a slate of Earth Week events sponsored by Sierra Club Maine, including a virtual talk by Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. Mayewski will speak at 5 p.m. April 21 about the effect of global climate change in Maine.

Paul Mayewski, Kimberley Miner and Mariusz Potocki were interviewed by The Washington Post about finding per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS), or “forever chemicals,” near the summit of Everest. Mayewski is the director of the Climate Change Institute (CCI) at the University of Maine, Miner is an assistant research professor with CCI, and Potocki is a […]

An image from the Climate Reanalyzer developed by Sean Birkel, a research assistant professor with the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, was featured with a Washington Post story about the reassignment of Trump appointee Betsy Weatherhead to the U.S. Geological Survey.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/mt-everest-pollution/2021/04/16/7b341ff0-909f-11eb-bb49-5cb2a95f4cec_story.html By Murray Carpenter April 17, 2021 at 9:30 a.m. EDT From an elevation of 27,600 feet, just below the summit of Everest, researcher Mariusz Potocki could see one of the planet’s most dramatic scenes — the snow-capped Himalayas against a deep blue sky. He was on a mission to gather snow and ice samples […]