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The University of Maine Climate Change Institute has made numerous scientific discoveries, including mapping the difference between climate during the Ice Age and during modern times, connecting acid rain to human causes in the 1980s, and finding that the climate can change abruptly through analysis of ice core samples from Greenland. [30]
On remote islands off the Maine coast, a unique bird held its own this year in the face of climate change. Atlantic puffins — clownish seabirds with colorful bills and waddling gaits — had ...
Jul. 6—BATH, Maine — Peter Gerard had never seen so much water. A torrential rain storm in late September 2015 coinciding with high tide waters and leaves clogging drains sent him racing to a ...
(The Center Square) — Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has filed a lawsuit against a handful of major oil companies, alleging they have "deceived" the state for decades about the role fossil ...
This has been a big year for Climate Action in York and Maine.
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The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1 °F). [1] Summer temperatures in Europe were the coldest of any on record between 1766 and 2000, [2] resulting in crop failures and major food shortages across the Northern ...
Climate change can also be used more broadly to include changes to the climate that have happened throughout Earth's history. [32] Global warming—used as early as 1975 [33] —became the more popular term after NASA climate scientist James Hansen used it in his 1988 testimony in the U.S. Senate. [34] Since the 2000s, climate change has ...