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UMaine researchers are trying to create climate change resistant potatoes

Maine Public | By Robbie Feinberg Published November 26, 2021 at 8:43 AM EST Robert F. Bukaty/AP file In this Sept. 27, 2017, file photo, potatoes await harvesting at Green Thumb Farms in Fryeburg, Maine. University of Maine researchers have received about half a million dollars toward the development of new potatoes that can better […]

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Maine potato breeding program works to increase potato climate resilience

Sam Schipani Bangor Daily News November 22, 2021 All reds, dark red Norlands, and purple skinned yellow flesh potatoes are shown in this 2005 file photo. Credit: Denise Farwell / BDN For decades, the University of Maine has devoted valuable agricultural research to studying how to improve potato crops, a central element of the state’s […]

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Maine Climate News posts update on the Maine Summer 2021 Climate Summary

The Maine Summer 2021 Climate Summary was prepared by Sean Birkel, Assistant Extension Professor and Maine State Climatologist with the Climate Change Institute and Cooperative Extension. The Maine statewide climatological summer (June-August) 2021 average temperature was 65.6°F or 4th warmest on record for the 127-year period beginning 1895. This temperature is 0.1°F cooler than for the same […]

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Maine Forest Carbon Task Force welcomes comments by Sept 17

(Photo by Jesse Echevarria on Unsplash) AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine’s Forest Carbon Task Force invites public feedback by September 17 on possible strategies outlined in its draft report. Created by Executive Order, the task force was recommended by “Maine Won’t Wait,” the state’s new four-year climate action plan. The task force aims to develop a […]

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New England Climate Services Workshop – Mon 13 Sep 2021 online

This workshop brings together a diverse group of climate experts at the state, regional and national levels to showcase climate services, products and data and to seek input on improving these offerings to meet your needs. The workshop is for all current and potential users of climate services, products and data within Vermont, New Hampshire […]

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Wildfires are ravaging forests set aside to soak up greenhouse gases

A firefighter in an area burned by the Bootleg fire near Paisley, Ore., last month.Credit…Kristina Barker for The New York Times The wildfires in the American West are burning vast expanses of specially protected forests — those that are part of carbon-offset projects meant to counterbalance the carbon dioxide pollution being pumped into the atmosphere […]

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First water cuts in US West supply to hammer Arizona farmers

Climate change, drought and high demand are expected to force the first-ever mandatory cuts to a water supply that 40 million people across the American West depend on — the Colorado River. Cuts will spare cities and tribes, but hit Arizona farmers hard. They knew this was coming. They have left fields unplanted, laser leveled […]

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