Wild blueberries, an icon of Down East landscapes, will soon take root at the University of Maine’s new Wyman’s Wild Blueberry Research and Innovation Center. The three-acre research and education site will be established off University Farm Road in Old Town over the coming year through a gift from Wyman’s, a 148-year-old family-owned business based […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, spoke with The Business Times for an article titled “On a divided Mt Everest, climate cooperation is being tested.”
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News Center Maine, Scienmag, Phys.org, the Bangor Daily News, The Piscataquis Observer, Morning Ag Clips, the Environmental News Network and other national outlets reported on University of Maine research showing that the location, season and the time of day influence how fast temperatures are rising at Maine wild blueberry fields due to climate change. Differences […]
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In an article about Nepal potentially moving the Mount Everest base camp as a result of climate change, CNN spoke to Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, about a study he authored that revealed that ice formed over a period of 2,000 years on the South Col Glacier […]
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In an opinion essay about international conflicts in data collection on Mount Everest, the New York Times quoted Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, as saying Chinese researchers are “much tougher” than their Western counterparts. Shichang Kang of China’s State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences and a former […]
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The Bangor Daily News and WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) reported on University of Maine research that shows with the right conditions, black-legged tick nymphs could survive cold winter temperatures. “The findings of this study suggest that the impact of low temperatures on overwinter survival may not be the single factor limiting black-legged tick populations […]
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The Globe and Mail reported on a research expedition to the summit of Mount Logan, Canada’s tallest mountain, last month to collect ice core samples from the massive glacier that resides just below the summit’s multiple peaks. Dominic Winski, research assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute and an expedition member, said […]
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The location, season and the time of day influence how fast temperatures are rising at Maine wild blueberry fields due to climate change, according to a new University of Maine study. To identify variations in climate across Maine wild blueberry fields at different times of the day and year, the research team led by Rafa […]
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In an article about environmentally-friendly alternatives to heating oil, the Portland Press Herald noted that Boston startup Biofine Technology is working with the University of Maine to build a biorefinery to produce what it says is a carbon-neutral substitute for home heating oil at a former paper mill in Lincoln.
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Mariusz Potocki, research assistant at the University of Maine, was interviewed for IFLScience about the impacts of climate change on Mount Everest’s base camp. The article cited Potocki’s study that found that Everest’s highest glacier, the South Col Glacier, shed 2,000 years’ worth of ice in 30 years and has lost half its mass since […]
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