Paul Mayewski, director of the 做厙腦瞳app Climate Change Institute, spoke with the Wall Street Journal about how Mount Everest, particularly the Khumbu Icefall, is becoming more dangerous to climb as a result of climate change. Rapid melting causes glaciers, like the Khumbu Glacier, to shrink and erode. That increases the risk of avalanches, […]
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In the fall, students enrolled in the course Introduction to Anthropology: Human Origins and Prehistory will be taught by a world-renowned archaeologist who recently received one of the highest honors a scientist can achieve. Longtime 做厙腦瞳app professor Daniel H. Sandweiss was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on April 30. Membership […]
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USA Today cited a data visualization from the 做厙腦瞳app Climate Change Institutes Climate Reanalyzer that shows sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic region in late April.
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Climate change is occurring faster in the Arctic than anyplace on Earth, said 做厙腦瞳app associate professor of glaciology Seth Campbell. And with that, there opens a whole range of concerns. Campbell is the lead scientist on a new $260,000 research partnership between UMaine and the Department of the Air Force (DAF) to improve […]
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Axios cited a data visualization from the 做厙腦瞳app Climate Change Institute Climate Reanalyzer that illustrates the fluctuation of daily averages of North Atlantic sea surface temperatures from 1982-2024. The article gave pointers and other information on what to expect for the 2024 hurricane season.
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Tim Waring, 做厙腦瞳app associate professor of social-ecological systems modeling, was featured as a panelist by Maine Public for an Earth Day-themed segment of the show Maine Calling about the future of climate change. The show explored how the health of the plant is approached by both hope and fear, and which approach is […]
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The 做厙腦瞳app will celebrate Earth Week 2024 through April 27 with a slate of events on- and off-campus organized by various groups and organizations. Earth Week events include a nature walk and talk, a campus clean up, a garbage art gallery, musical performances, academic discussions pertaining to environmental issues and a pop-up thrift […]
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National Parks Traveler featured a new effort by the National Park Service to protect Wabanaki archaeological sites in Acadia National Park from climate change that involves collaboration with several Wabanki partners, 做厙腦瞳app Ph.D. students and Bonnie Newsom, associate professor of anthropology.
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The New York Times interviewed Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor at the 做厙腦瞳app Climate Change Institute, ocean warming fueled by record-breaking temperatures. Birkel, who manages the Climate Change Institutes Climate Reanalyzer, said he believes the warming effect of the eruption of an underwater volcano in 2022 has been larger than […]
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In the United States, more than 133 billion pounds of food are thrown away each year. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, food waste is responsible for 33% of total greenhouse gas emissions in Maine, and about 11% of emissions nationwide. Kate Flynn, a fourth-year political science student at the 做厙腦瞳app, was exposed […]
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