Climate Change Institute

Indigenous communities worldwide are facing the effects of climate changes, threats to their food supplies and the potential destruction of historically and culturally significant places. Using Indigenous knowledge and Western science, University of Maine faculty will devise new ways to tackle these pressing issues through a new research center based at the University of Massachusetts […]

Yale Environment 360 featured research by University of Maine Ph.D. students Václava Hazuková and Ashley Grider looking at how frozen north lakes in the Arctic, which over millennia, locked up huge stores of carbon in their sediments, may unleash emissions that will accelerate climate change as they melt with rising temperatures.

In reporting about how El Niño has pushed global monthly mean ocean temperatures to all-time high, Hindustan Times cited information from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Change Reanalyzer demonstrating that sea surface temperatures observed since April show a far sharper spike than the warming over land, especially when compared with the long-term […]

In reporting about wet summer conditions and whether they will continue into the fall and winter, the Sun Journal interviewed Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor with a joint appointment in University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine Climate Change Institute. “We’re seeing more extremes as the climate warms. So, in terms […]

The Daily Hampshire Gazette reported that Bonnie Newsom, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Maine, will serve as a co-principal investigator at a new center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst known as the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS), which received $30 million in funding from the National Science Foundation.

Witnessing abrupt climate change ByMarina Schauffler September 10, 2023 Planetary change may now be outpacing both scientific understanding and political will. Ice cores from glaciers have revealed evidence of abrupt climate change in past geological eras. Similarly rapid change is now happening in Arctic air and sea-surface temperatures, raising concerns about worldwide repercussions. Photo courtesy […]

Antarctic evidence for an abrupt northward shift of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies at 32 ka BP Abhijith U. Venugopal, Nancy A. N. Bertler, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Edward J. Brook, Giuseppe Cortese, James E. Lee, Thomas Blunier, Paul A. Mayewski, Helle A. Kjær, Lionel Carter, Michael E. Weber, Richard H. Levy, Rebecca L. Pyne & Marcus […]

In a story about how summer 2023 was the hottest on record, Euronews cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer which shows that so far, daily September temperatures are also above average.