Climate Change

News Center features UMaine faculty developing new resource for energy transitions in underserved communities

News Center Maine reported on the Environmental Protection Agency awarding $1.125 million to Sharon Klein and Caroline Noblet, both University of Maine associate professors of economics, to develop a new resource for addressing the drivers and environmental impacts of energy transitions in underserved and Tribal communities. They will engage with indigenous, rural and low-income communities […]

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Klein discusses electric grid resilience research with Public News Service

Sharon Klein, University of Maine associate professor of economics, spoke to Public News Service about a collaborative research project called STORM: Data-Driven Approaches for Secure Electric Grids in Communities Disproportionately Impacted by Climate Change. “It’s important to me personally that the communities that have not been part of the conversation as much, that they’re accessing […]

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Birkel speaks to Grist on hurricanes in the Atlantic and climate change

In a story about Hurricane Lee, Grist interviewed Sean Birkel about the rarity of hurricanes in Maine and New England and how climate change is influencing the occurrence of one in the region this year. “Given the record-high sea-surface temperatures in the North Atlantic, it is interesting that in this year we see a hurricane […]

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Reuters cites UMaine data on warming temperatures in Cambodia 

In a story titled “Cambodia fishermen struggle as the sea warms,” Reuters cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer showing that temperature spikes in the waters surrounding Cambodia have become more frequent since 2010. Yahoo! News and WHBL (101.5 FM in Sheboygan, Wisconsin), shared the Reuters report.

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Reuters cites UMaine Climate Reanalyzer in reporting about Cambodian fishermen

In an article about the impact of warming seas on Cambodian crab fisherman, Reuters cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer noting that temperature spikes have become increasingly common in oceans along Cambodia’s coastline since 2010. WTVB (95.5 FM in Coldwater, Michigan) shared the Reuters report. 

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Washington Post cites Climate Reanalyzer data

In an article about record global temperatures and flooding, the Washington Post cited data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration charted by the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer showing that global average sea surface temperatures, excluding polar regions, have been hovering at or around record highs for six weeks.

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Hindustan Times cites UMaine Climate Reanalyzer in coverage of El Niño

In reporting about how El Niño has pushed global monthly mean ocean temperatures to all-time high, Hindustan Times cited information from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Change Reanalyzer demonstrating that sea surface temperatures observed since April show a far sharper spike than the warming over land, especially when compared with the long-term […]

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Yale Environment 360 features UMaine research about Arctic Lakes

Yale Environment 360 featured research by University of Maine Ph.D. students Václava Hazuková and Ashley Grider looking at how frozen north lakes in the Arctic, which over millennia, locked up huge stores of carbon in their sediments, may unleash emissions that will accelerate climate change as they melt with rising temperatures. Undark and Mother Jones […]

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