https://pastglobalchanges.org/publications/pages-magazines/pages-magazine/138632 We developed a novel hyperspectral line-scan imaging system for ice cores. The system nondestructively captures light-scattering features via dark-field illumination. Its calibrated visible and near-infrared spectral data enhance analysis and archiving, advancing research on stratigraphic impurities, ice dynamics and paleoclimate.https://doi.org/10.22498/pages.33.2.50 “IceSpec: An Ice-Core Hyperspectral Imaging Framework.” 2025. Past Global Changes Magazine 33 (2): 50–51. […]

 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2502681122 with DOI number 10.1073/pnas.2502681122 Paper reports the discovery of ice, that is up to 6 million years old. Isotopic temperatures from this ice indicate progressive cooling over the Pliocene; enigmatic basal ice from the Miocene is characterized by even warmer temperatures and may reflect a relic from the adolescent days of the Antarctic ice […]

Jefferson Cardia SIMÕES has been elected a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences/TWAS [TWAS UNESCO (https://twas.org/)]. The nominee has made significant contributions to the science of ice cores and is one of the most distinguished Latin-American glaciologists. His achievements include reconstructing acid pollution in Svalbard ice cores and detecting arsenic and uranium pollution in […]

Newsweek reported on the melting of The Alsek Glacier in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park, which has created a new island in Alsek Lake. The new land formation brings to light pre-existing concerns about global warming and rising sea levels. Karl Kreutz, University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences director and Climate Change […]

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Climate Change Institute Everest researchers (Mariusz Potocki and Paul Andrew Mayewski) recently released results  from the highest ice core ever recovered https://doi.org/10.31223/X50X7C Photo by Dirk Collins, National Geographic. Abstract We present a unique atmospheric chemistry record from the highest ice core ever recovered (8020 m, South Col Glacier (SCG), Mt. Everest), that captures ~400 years of deposition […]

Bloomberg cited a data visualization from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer for a story on climate change and hurricane season.