Mount Desert Islander published a review of “The Plants of Baxter State Park.” The guide includes scientific descriptions of 857 plant species documented in the park, organized with useful keys and illustrated with 2,000 color photos. Glen Mittelhauser, executive director for Maine Natural History Observatory, is lead author of the guide that was co-written with […]
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Nearly four decades after it began, a University of Maine program that brings women with international roots together for internationally themed lunches and presentations, is still going strong, the Bangor Daily News reports. Every month, roughly 40 women and children meet in the basement of the Church of Universal Fellowship in Orono to try international […]
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The National Endowment for the Humanities published an article about the Historical Atlas of Maine and the several awards it has received. The folio has earned four publication awards, including the 2016 Globe Book Award from the Association of American Geographers, the largest professional organization of geographers in the world, according to the article. Other […]
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WVII (Channel 7) spoke with Howard Segal, a history professor at the University of Maine, for a story on the Ku Klux Klan’s history in Maine. “While Maine didn’t have big cities in the 1920s, there was a march in Brewer of roughly 40,000 klansmen. And given the population of Maine in the 1920s, that’s […]
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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension was cited in an answer to a Sun Journal reader’s question about how to avoid wet winter squash. According to UMaine Extension, it’s important to choose full-sized, mature fruit with a hard, tough rind that is heavy for its size. People should avoid squash with cuts, punctures or sunken […]
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A 2011 waste characterization study by the University of Maine School of Economics was cited in a Bangor Daily News article about the decline of trash at Bar Harbor’s College of the Atlantic. Every fall, one week’s worth of trash and recycling generated at the college is collected, sorted and displayed so students and others […]
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The Bangor Daily News, WABI (Channel 5), WLBZ (Channel 2) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on the release of a new potato variety developed by the Maine Potato Board and University of Maine. The Caribou Russet, which was first unveiled last spring, was officially released at the Maine Harvest Festival in Bangor, making the potato […]
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The Washington Post, Discover Magazine, Live Science, Pulse Headlines and News and International Business Times cited data from the Climate Reanalyzer, a website run by research assistant professor Sean Birkel at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, in recent stories on the 36 Fahrenheit degree jump in pre-winter temperatures at the North Pole. The […]
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The Huffington Post quoted an Associated Press interview with Rebecca Holberton, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Maine, in a recent story on what may be causing puffins to wash ashore dead in Alaska. Researchers say climate change may be behind the recent die-offs. The article goes on to note that other […]
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John Rebar, executive director of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with Maine Public for a report about how this year’s Thanksgiving meal will cost Americans less than it has for decades. However, the price decrease may not be noticed as much in Maine and Vermont, two places that pay significantly more for groceries […]
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