Climate Change Institute

Jacquelyn Gill, an associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology at the University of Maine, spoke with Vogue India about climate grief, anxiety and despair associated with climate change and the natural disasters it fuels. To prevent succumbing to climate despair, Gill said she focuses on solutions, such as “leaning into sustainable ways of living […]

A once-in-a-century climate deviation that resulted in torrential rain and cold air over Europe from 1914 to 1919 likely increased the number of people who died during World War I and the Spanish flu pandemic. The documented severe, incessant rains and unusually cold temperatures impacted major battles from 1914 to 1918 on the Western Front. […]

The Bangor Daily News interviewed Sean Birkel, a research assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, about whether the changing climate has caused an increase in storm frequency in Maine, as warming oceans are imbuing the atmosphere with more moisture. Birkel said while climate change could be the culprit, the question is […]

Fires in the Amazon forest have raged in the summers of 2019 and 2020, as shown by global news coverage. Scientists as well as policymakers worldwide have become alarmed at the rate of deforestation. Dr. Alexander More was interviewed by Now This on the Amazon fires and he shows compelling evidence that the demand for Brazilian beef […]

Patients lie in a US Army influenza ward in Aix-les-Baines, France, during World War I. Cable News Network (CNN) interviewed Alexander More, an associate professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, about using ice cores to illustrate the impact of climate conditions on the number of deaths during a pandemic. Using an Alpine […]

WABI (Channel 5) highlighted “A Climate Change Forum — Your chance to ask questions about climate change” webinar 6–7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28. Five University of Maine faculty members will address various aspects of climate change — including why it matters and how we respond to it, and the importance of messaging. After all of […]

Alexander More, an assistant research professor with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, spoke with Popular Science and Mirage News about how a once in a century climate anomaly exacerbated the H1N1 flu pandemic of 1918-1919 and casualties in World War 1. Through studying an ice core from the Swiss-Italian Alps, More, also a […]

With masks over their faces, members of the American Red Cross remove a victim of the Spanish Flu from a house at Etzel and Page Avenues, St. Louis, Missouri.  Photo courtesy of St. Louis Post Dispatch   A once-in-a-century climate deviation that resulted in torrential rain and cold air over Europe from 1914 to 1919 […]

The Punakha Dzong is a monastery in Bhutan originally constructed in the 15th century at the confluence of the Mo Chhu (left) and Pho Chhu (right) rivers. The Pho Chhu river drains the high, glaciated Himalayan peaks of Lunana —the focus area of this study. In 1994, a glacial-lake outburst flood from the Lugge glacier […]

WVII (Channel 7) spoke with Ivan Fernandez, University of Maine professor of soil science and forest resources, in a story about the impact of the Clean Air Act.