Tyler Lissy, a graduate student at the University of Maine’s School of Policy and International Affairs, wrote an op-ed published in the Bangor Daily News that emphasized Maine’s emerging role as a strategic link between the Arctic and Europe.
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Newsweek reported on the melting of The Alsek Glacier in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park, which has created a new island in Alsek Lake. The new land formation brings to light pre-existing concerns about global warming and rising sea levels. Karl Kreutz, University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences director and Climate Change […]
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The News York Times shared a data visualization from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer that showed warmer-than-usual forecast temperatures across Canada.
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The Maine Monitor interviewed Griffin Dill, integrated pest management professional and University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor, on data points that connect tick-borne disease to warming climate. Dill said new research from UMaine Extension’s Tick Lab, which he manages, confirms the tick season is expanding in Maine and the disease babesiosis is increasingly prevalent in […]
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Bloomberg cited a data visualization from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer for a story on climate change and hurricane season.
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The Ellsworth American interviewed Shaleen Jain, professor of civil engineering at the University of Maine, on concerns dams can pose to communities and his research, which looked at how historical data on river flow and rainfall is considered in dam design and whether more expansive records could better predict future outcomes. “We found that longer […]
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The Portland Press Herald interviewed Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, on the future of extreme weather events in Maine. “Climate change will continue. These extremes are going to continue,” Mayewski said. “And changes aren’t necessarily going to be gradual.” The city of Portland is currently updating its emergency preparedness […]
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EOS interviewed Damian Brady, professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine, on the vulnerability of the Gulf of Maine to become more acidic from warming waters and increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. “The dynamics are such that we have these countervailing forces all the time. We have these rises in total alkalinity […]
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Daniel Sandweiss, professor of anthropology and climate studies at the University of Maine, was featured in the summer 2025 edition of American Archaeology. Sandweiss, who is also a past president of the Society for American Archaeology, talked about how extreme weather events make it hard for archeologists to set priorities about what to save and […]
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The New York Times cited two data visualizations from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer to show how a heat wave passed through Europe.
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