Climate Change Institute

Maine on the Climate Change World Stage From record-breaking heatwaves, deadly flash flooding, and devastating wildfires, the daily news headlines send warnings that climate change is affecting every region across the globe. While the most devastating impacts of these weather extremes are felt locally in a particular city, region, or country, the climate change crisis […]

The Bangor Daily News and the Sun Journal promoted “Digging for Buried Treasure: Hidden Gems in Maine’s Reuse Markets,” which is scheduled for 3–4 p.m. Sept. 20 in Room 107 of the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine. The presentation will also be available on Zoom. Cindy Isenhour, […]

  University of Maine Climate Change Institute researchers will return to the Allan Hills blue ice area in Antarctica as part of a new Center for Oldest Ice Exploration, or COLDEX, led by Oregon State University and made possible by a five-year, $25 million National Science Foundation grant. COLDEX is one of six new NSF […]

Thousands of humans live on the 660-acre University of Maine campus. So too, do many other species. To find out how many others and which ones, the School of Biology and Ecology Graduate Organization (SBE GO) invites members of the UMaine and local communities to take part in a BioBlitz from 8:30 a.m. to 4 […]

The Bangor Daily News cited a 2020 report about climate change drafted by researchers at the University of Maine in a story about environmental conditions in Maine in the year 2100, which is considered a benchmark year for climate change.

Ivan Fernandez, a University of Maine professor of soil science and forest resources, talked with WAGM (Channel 8 in Presque Isle) about the recently released United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. “All of the superlatives — ‘catastrophic,’ etc. — they’re real,” said Fernandez. “We’ve heard them so many times I think people are […]

  Endothermy, or the ability to maintain body temperature at a constant and elevated level, is a signature mammalian characteristic. But global climate change is affecting mammalian temperature regulation in a variety of ways as it reshapes natural habitats. Understanding the impact of temperature fluctuations on mammals that inhabit diverse environments is critical to identifying […]

Next April, Václava “Vendy” Hazuková will go to an arid, treeless area in West Greenland to solve a puzzle. It’s not known how lakes there contribute to Arctic carbon cycling — the process in which carbon atoms move from the atmosphere to the Earth and back. Where carbon is — including in the atmosphere, oceans, […]

Alice Kelley, undergraduate coordinator in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, and UMaine graduate Jackie Bellefontaine spoke with CNN for a story about the importance of understanding climate change in finding solutions. Bellefontaine is a weather observer and educational specialist at the weather observatory on Mt. Washington; Kelley was […]