Jessica Leahy, a University of Maine professor of human dimensions of natural resources, spoke with the New York Times for an article about wood banks. Wood banks, like food banks, offer free wood for home heating to people in need. “Lots of people are on the edge of poverty and cannot afford unexpected events: a […]
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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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The Counter interviewed Joshua Stoll, a University of Maine assistant professor of marine policy, about the direct-to-consumer model for selling fish in a story about how the COVID-19 pandemic could change the U.S. fish industry. “If we’re interested in learning from this pandemic and responding to it in the seafood sector, we should really think […]
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Jason Lilley, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension sustainable agriculture professional, spoke with the Bangor Daily News about the possibility of a birch sap market forming in Maine. “It lines up really well with the maple industry in that you need all of the same equipment to make birch syrup as you need to make […]
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WAGM in Presque Isle interviewed Marcy Wicklund, home horticulture coordinator for University of Maine Cooperative Extension, in a preview for a webinar about how to landscape with edible native plants. “It’s finding what’s already there. And you can add one or two plants to supplement your landscape,” Wicklund said. The webinar, which will be co-hosted […]
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The Bangor Daily News, The Irregular, The Franklin Journal, the Sun Journal and Centralmaine.com advanced a webinar about promoting equity through citizen science hosted by the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. Register for the webinar online.
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Morning Ag Clips, The Irregular, the Daily Bulldog, the Bangor Daily News, the Sun Journal and Centralmaine.com advanced a University of Maine Cooperative Extension educational update webinar for the potato industry at 7 p.m. Feb. 24. More information is online.
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The Bangor Daily News reported that a small subset of Bangor Symphony Orchestra (BSO) musicians were recorded playing to empty seats at the University of Maine Collins Center for the Arts. BSO plans to record four additional digital concerts, which will be available for online viewing for $10.
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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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