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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 […]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/09/china/china-glaciers-melting-climate-change-intl-hnk/index.html

https://graphics.reuters.com/CLIMATE-CHANGE/CHINA-GLACIER/rlgvdamqnpo/

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.

The University of Maine McGillicuddy Humanities Center (MHC) will host a discussion focused on effectively communicating the impact of climate change 7:30–8:30 p.m. Nov 17. Part of the MHC’s 2020-2021 Symposium on “The Story of Climate Change,” this event brings together professionals in varied disciplines who seek to effectively communicate the impact of climate change […]

The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) ranked the University of Maine among the top performing higher education institutions for sustainability. The organization uses its Sustainable Campus Index to recognize colleges and universities that excel in 17 impact areas, including air and climate, curriculum, food and dining, energy, research, waste and […]

ELSEVIER – Quaternary Science Reviews 250 (2020) 106677   ABSTRACT The pattern, timing, and origin of Southern Hemisphere climate change during the last glaciation remains a pressing problem, with implications for the role of orbital forcing in ice-age cycles. Here, we present geomorphological and cosmogenic exposure age data from East Falkland in the South Atlantic […]

Loyal Benefactors, Dan ’63 and Betty Churchill, Announce $6.5 Million Bequest Expectancy at University of Maine Foundation Event At a recent University of Maine Foundation virtual Homecoming event, University of Maine benefactors Dan ’63 and Betty Churchill shared their intentions to make estate gifts estimated at up to $6.5 million to benefit the University of […]