For more than a year, Maine Public's news staff has been taking a deep dive into the all-encompassing subject of climate change examining its effects, its challenges and what future adaptation might look like in Maine, one county at a time.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $1.65 million across a team of researchers at five institutions that includes Shawn Fraver, associate professor of forest ecology at the University of Maine School of Forest Resources, to study methane sinks in Northern Forests. The total award to UMaine is $239,679. Methane is second only to carbon dioxide […]
As part of their series “Climate Driven: A deep dive into Maine’s response, one county at a time,” Maine Public featured the University of Maine’s Howland Research Forest, where scientists have undertaken groundbreaking studies on acid rain, forest ecology and soil health. At the research forest, carbon and other greenhouse gas measurements are continuously recorded […]
For decades, scientists from around the world have been visiting a mature forest just off the interstate, about 30 miles north of Bangor where carbon and other greenhouse gas measurements are continuously recorded from the top of several meteorological towers.
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