By Mehr Sher
Mainers learned earlier this year that the state is approximately 75 percent carbon neutral, based on a first-of-its-kind analysis of Maine’s greenhouse gas emissions. But most of the credit for the carbon neutrality goes to Maine’s abundant forests, which capture and store carbon from the air.
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Sea ice cover in the Southern Hemisphere is extremely variable, from summer to winter and from millennium to millennium, according to a University of Maine-led study. Overall, sea ice has been on the rise for about 10,000 years, but with some.
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Study Sheds More Light on Overall Sea Ice Changes in Southern Hemisphere
Written by AZoCleantechMay 6 2021
According to a new study, headed by the University of Maine, sea ice cover formed in the Southern Hemisphere is highly variable, from winter to summer periods and from one millennium to the next. On the whole, sea ice has been rising for around 10,000 years but with certain exceptions to this pattern.
Sea ice pressure ridge off the Antarctic coast. Image Credit: University of Maine.
Dominic Winski, a research assistant professor from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, led a study that investigated the chemistry of a 54,000-year-old South Pole ice core and subsequently revealed new data about the variability of sea ice over the centuries, specifically across seasons, in the Southern Hemisphere.