The Bangor Daily News and the Penobscot Bay Pilot promoted a talk by Fran Ulmer, Arctic Initiative senior fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center at the Kennedy School of Government, scheduled for 3 p.m. March 8. Ulmer’s talk, “Rapid Arctic Change: Why Does It Matter and How Can the Science Community Help?” is sponsored by […]
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Michael Howard, a University of Maine professor of philosophy and member of the Scholars Strategy Network, calls for integrating action on climate change with pandemic recovery efforts to avert catastrophe in a Bangor Daily News op-ed.
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Orono, Maine — The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will co-host a talk by Fran Ulmer on why rapid Arctic change matters and how the science community can help from 3–4 p.m. on Monday, March 8. Fran Ulmer is an Arctic Initiative senior fellow at Harvard University’s […]
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The Maine Monitor reported that University of Maine professors Ivan Fernandez and Malcolm Hunter criticized federal tax credits that encourage the use of wood as an alternative home heating fuel. Hunter and more than 500 academic colleagues co-signed a letter noting that cutting trees to be burned for home heating undermines carbon sequestration. Fernandez, who […]
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The Associated Press cited the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer in a story titled “EXPLAINER: Topsy-turvy weather comes from polar vortex.” The reanalyzer, according to the story, shows that the “globe as a whole is about the same temperature as the average was from 1979 to 2000 for this time of year,” which is still […]
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The Bangor Daily News, the Penobscot Bay Pilot and News Center Maine advanced a report describing the number of overdoses in January that was compiled by Marcella Sorg, a University of Maine forensic anthropologist who also serves Maine’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The report was issued by both the Office of the Chief […]
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A report by Andrew Pershing, a University of Maine associate professor with the Climate Change Institute, was cited in a New Hampshire Union Leader story about researchers using historical fish diet data to predict which species will inhabit the Gulf of Maine in the future.
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Paul Mayewski, University of Maine professor and director of the Climate Change Institute, appeared on “Maine Calling” to discuss the geopolitical implications of climate change occurring in isolated areas such as the Arctic.
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Public promoted an appearance by Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, on Maine Calling at 11 a.m. Feb. 16. During the broadcast, Mayewski will preview presentations and panel discussions slated for Feb. 20 and 21 at the Camden Conference. The theme for this year’s Camden Conference is “The Geopolitics of […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, is participating in a “Maine Calling” discussion about how the “dramatic, irreversible changes” in the Arctic will influence geopolitics at 11 a.m. and again at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16. Other participants in the upcoming discussion include Frances Ulmer, former chair of the U.S. Arctic Research […]
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