The Mount Desert Islander promoted an event about how Mount Desert Island’s tourism industry is adapting to climate change, featuring Lydia Horne, who received her Ph.D. at the University of Maine studying the topic.
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In an article about the polar vortex, the New York Times used a data visualization from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer.
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In an article about the polar vortex, the Dallas Morning News cited information from the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer showing that the world as a whole is about the same temperature as the average was from 1979–2000 for this time of year.
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News Center Maine featured Sean Birkel, research assistant professor of the Climate Change Institute, and his research with the University of Vermont and University of New Hampshire about the climate resilience of manufactured homes. “The whole basin, and also [the] Gulf of Maine, last year and this year, are the two warmest years on record. […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Maine Public, MaineBiz, Public News Service, Coastal News Today, Wiscasset Newspaper, Environmental News Network, Maritime Executive and WGME-TV (Channel 13 in Portland) reported that the University of Maine is leading a collaborative research project along with scientists from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Columbia University, Florida State University and Memorial […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Phys.org, Nature World News, ScienceDaily shared a University of Maine-led study that found a combination of global atmospheric warming and westerly winds shifting toward the poles will likely speed up the recession of mountain glaciers in both hemispheres. The study compared global temperature and wind changes with glacier snow line elevations […]
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In an article about Maine forests serving as carbon sinks, the Bangor Daily News interviewed the University of Maine’s Ivan Fernandez, professor at the Climate Change Institute and School of Forest Resources; Dominic Winski, research assistant professor at the Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences; and Daniel Hayes, associate professor of […]
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In an article highlighting the impacts of climate change on Alaska and Hawaii, Yahoo News cited information from the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer that shows temperatures in the upper third of Alaska, located inside the Arctic Circle, have been observed at an average of 11.5 degrees Fahrenheit above normal this month. Aol, WPXI-TV (Pittsburgh, […]
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In an article about the unusually warm winter in the Berkshires, the Berkshire Eagle cited data from the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer showing that temperatures across the entire Arctic averaged 11.5 degrees higher than the normal temperature over the years spanning 1979–2000.
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The combination of global atmospheric warming and westerly winds shifting toward the poles will likely speed up the recession of mountain glaciers in both hemispheres, according to a UMaine study. Mountain glaciers freeze and gain mass when the climate cools, and melt and lose mass when the climate warms. The extent to which the fluctuations […]
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