Several news organizations including the Kennebec Journal and the Sun Journal of Lewiston carried a Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting article on the testimony of nearly a dozen of the state’s top environmental groups during a legislative hearing Thursday to urge the state to revive its climate change planning. Members of the University of […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot wrote an article about the upcoming trip to Alaska by University of Maine climate change researchers to collect an ice core record of Arctic climate change over the past 1,000 years. Karl Kreutz, professor in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences; UMaine graduate student Seth Campbell; […]
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The University of Alabama’s UA News published an article on research that found clamshells used in ancient funeral ceremonies offer more evidence as to how climate change may have contributed to the gradual collapse of the Moche, an early South-American civilization. The research, which was recently published in the scientific journal Geology, was conducted by […]
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Scientists in Poland name new minerals for UMaine geologist.
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Prehistoric ear stones of Pacific cod reveal fluctuations in ocean temperatures during the Little Ice Age.
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Research confirms regional — not global — climate change in New Zealand and European glaciers during the preindustrial Holocene.
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Research explores how lakes affected by climate change could impact distributions of the iconic northern birds.
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Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of blog posts from UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, which is currently conducting fieldwork in the Alaska Range. Seth Campbell, a University of Maine graduate student pursuing his Ph.D. through UMaine’s Climate Change Institute and Department of Earth Sciences, is getting ready to lead an expedition in […]
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Just in time for Earth Day, anyone in the U.S. can see important environmental factors easily and instantly Orono, Maine, April 12, 2012 – With 10Green, a new, interactive web tool (10Green.org) you can get a comprehensive assessment of the health of your local environment with just a few keystrokes. Just enter your zip code […]
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California’s Sacramento Bee newspaper carried a news release about the new “10Green” interactive web tool designed by the University of Maine Climate Change Institute to provide 10 air quality measures of pollutants such as carbon monoxide, large and small particulates, ozone, sulfur dioxide and heavy metals. Institute Director Paul Mayewski said in an interview that […]
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