Climate Change Institute

Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, spoke with Popular Science about research from the most comprehensive scientific expedition to Mount Everest. CCI scientists joined others in the 2019 National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition, which resulted in several papers published in the interdisciplinary scientific journal One Earth. “This […]

CBS News cited the Climate Change Institute Climate Reanalyzer in a story about “astonishingly warmer” temperatures in the Arctic. The average temperature for the Arctic Circle, which spans 7.7 million square miles, reached 12 degrees Fahrenheit above normal Nov. 21–22, according to the reanalyzer. Since 2012, University of Maine CCI research assistant professor Sean Birkel […]

Kimberley Miner spoke to Smithsonian Magazine about a study exploring how climate change has altered oxygen levels at Mount Everest. The study, which the assistant professor at the Climate Change Institute was not involved in, revealed that the rise in air pressure resulting from climate change near the summit has made oxygen more available. It […]

KSAT in San Antonio reported on research from the most comprehensive scientific expedition to Mount Everest. Several researchers, including scientists from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, participated in the 2019 National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition, and shared their findings in papers published in the interdisciplinary scientific journal One Earth. Paul […]

Thawing permafrost is releasing microorganisms, with consequences that are still largely unknown https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deep-frozen-arctic-microbes-are-waking-up/?previewid=315B65F1-20D9-4FC6-8465CA1CB0C9E2D5 By Kimberley R. Miner, Arwyn Edwards, Charles Miller on November 20, 2020 Thermokarst, Russia. Credit: Getty Images In August 2019, Iceland held a funeral for the Okjökull Glacier, the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change. The community commemorated the event with […]

New findings from the most comprehensive scientific expedition to Mount Everest in history are in today’s interdisciplinary scientific journal One Earth. The collection of research papers and commentaries about Mount Everest, known locally as Sagarmatha and Chomolangma, identifies critical information about the Earth’s highest-mountain glaciers and the impacts they’re experiencing due to climate change. As […]

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Why Climate Change matters to your security, health & wealth We are in the midst of many serious challenges today: COVID-19, inequality, geopolitical unrest, economic crisis, and climate change which on its own and interacting with the others poses both immediate and long-term threats to our security, health, and wealth. Contributing editors Charles Norchi and […]

The Bangor Daily News reported that Ivan Fernandez, a University of Maine professor of soil science and forest resources, and Ellen Mallory, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor of sustainable agriculture, joined a panel of experts who answered questions from the public about the impact of climate change on Maine’s farms and forests.