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Dust that swept Europe in February affects weather systems but also contains many allergens. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/12/pollutionwatch-how-much-sahara-desert-dust-do-we-breathe Saharan dust high in the skies over Europe caused some spectacular sunsets in February. Many of us found dust on our cars, and Alpine snow has been stained orange, but finding out how much Saharan dust we are breathing has […]

Science Daily reported that a study led by George Denton, Libra Professor in the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences, and Aaron Putnam, assistant professor, suggests that ice age climate change may be driven by the westerly winds of the Southern Hemisphere which facilitate the release of energy from tropical ocean waters.

Moraines constructed during repeated advance-retreat cycles of one of the glaciers that extended out from the Southern Alps in New Zealand during the last ice age. Around 18,000 years ago, the glacier rapidly retreated in response to a sustained global warming event that terminated the ice age, revealing the glacial valley that is occupied by […]

Kristin Schild, a research assistant professor with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, will share her research with the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) at 1 p.m. March 11. Schild will present “Icebergs in Flux: Diving Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg,” to the IARPC’s Glaciers & Sea-Level and Physical Oceanography team who […]

The Associated Press cited the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer in a story titled “EXPLAINER: Topsy-turvy weather comes from polar vortex.” The reanalyzer, according to the story, shows that the “globe as a whole is about the same temperature as the average was from 1979 to 2000 for this time of year,” which is still […]

    https://eos.org/science-updates/the-imminent-calving-retreat-of-taku-glacier Long an anomaly among glaciers, advancing while most others shrank, Taku Glacier is starting to succumb to climate change, offering an unprecedented look at the onset of tidewater glacier retreat. Taku Glacier, a 55-kilometer-long tidewater glacier in Southeast Alaska, is seen here in August 2019. Credit: Matt Nolan, Fairbanks Fodar, Fairbanks By […]

Seth William Campbell1,2,3| Martin Briggs4| Samuel G. Roy1,5|Thomas A. Douglas6| Stephanie Saari6 1University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences, Orono, Maine, USA  2 University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Orono, Maine, USA  3U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA  4 U.S. Geological Survey, Earth System Processes Division, Hydrogeophysics […]

A report by Andrew Pershing, a University of Maine associate professor with the Climate Change Institute, was cited in a New Hampshire Union Leader story about researchers using historical fish diet data to predict which species will inhabit the Gulf of Maine in the future.

Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, is participating in a “Maine Calling” discussion about how the “dramatic, irreversible changes” in the Arctic will influence geopolitics at 11 a.m. and again at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16. Other participants in the upcoming discussion include Frances Ulmer, former chair of the U.S. Arctic Research […]

Public promoted an appearance by Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, on Maine Calling at 11 a.m. Feb. 16. During the broadcast, Mayewski will preview presentations and panel discussions slated for Feb. 20 and 21 at the Camden Conference. The theme for this year’s Camden Conference is “The Geopolitics of […]