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In the southern Peruvian Andes, an archaeological team led by researchers at the University of Maine has documented the highest altitude ice age human occupation anywhere in the world — nearly 4,500 meters above sea level (masl). Their discoveries date high-altitude human habitation nearly a millennium earlier than previously documented. Despite cold temperatures, high solar […]

Read the story More in REUTERS: Old, cold and bold: Ice Age people dwelled high in Peru’s Andes Wall street Journal: Archaeologists in Peruvian Andes Find Highest Known Ice Age Settlement The Boston Globe: Highest altitude settlements from ice age discovered    

Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was quoted in an article by The National, Abu Dhabi Media’s first English-language publication, about a climate change conference in the city. The annual conference on Climate Change and the Future of Water is hosted by the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies […]

Science Nation reported on research by University of Maine paleoclimatologist Karl Kreutz in an article and video titled “Alaska mountain glaciers retreating due to climate change.” With support from the National Science Foundation, Kreutz and his team are working to reconstruct the climate history of the area around Alaska’s Denali National Park over the last […]

Editors note: For more information on the CLAS Conference, visit the conference website. Registration is available online. Old-timers sharing childhood stories about growing up in Maine sometimes recount hiking 10 miles uphill in 3 feet of snow to get to school — and home. Turns out those tales, of Maine winters anyway, might not be […]

Documentary Series Featuring Mayewski Wins Emmy Award   A documentary about climate change that features a University of Maine explorer has won an Emmy Award. Paul Mayewski, director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, appeared in the ninth and final episode of Years of Living Dangerously, which aired weekly from April to June on Showtime. Developed […]

University of Maine professor Paul Mayewski is featured in the Showtime series Years of Living Dangerously starring Harrison Ford, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Matt Damon. It’s a thriller with an ending that hasn’t been written yet.   Executive producer James Cameron, who has also directed the blockbusters Avatar, The Terminator and Aliens, describes Years of Living […]

Human activity resulting from the Spanish conquest had a profound effect on coastal change in northwestern Peru, according to researchers at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute. Daniel Belknap, a professor of Earth sciences, and Daniel Sandweiss, a professor of anthropology and Quaternary and climate studies, researched how demographic and economic effects of the […]

The Climate Change Institute was voted into membership of the University of the Arctic at its Council Meeting in British Columbia on 05 20. UArctic (http://www.uarctic.org) is an international network of institutions which are involved in higher education and research in the Circumpolar North. The University of the Arctic (UArctic) is a cooperative network of […]

Recovery from acid rain speeding up in Northeast lakes Apr 15, 2014   Strock KE, SJ Nelson, JS Kahl, JE Saros, WH McDowell. 2014. Decadal trends reveal recent acceleration in the rate of recovery from acidification in the Northeastern U.S. Environmental Science and Technology. dx.doi.org/10.1021/es404772n Synopsis by EHN Staff Lakes in the U.S. Northeast are […]