The nation’s first multi- and inter-disciplinary research institute to study Earth’s recent and long-term climate variability was founded in 1972 at the University of Maine. That institute, now known as the Climate Change Institute, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, a milestone that honors the many groundbreaking discoveries its scientists have made in the […]
Daniel Sandweiss, professor of anthropology at the University of Maine, spoke to the New York Times about the impact of looting and development on archaeological sites in coastal Peru. “It’s a victory every time archaeologists can recover something responsibly and put it into the record. Peru has the most fascinating pre-European records of any place […]
In Lima, home to 10 million Peruvians and more than 1,000 archaeological sites, the discovery of an ancient tomb is just the latest encounter with an omnipresent past.
As climate change continues to intensify, some scientists predict La Niña and El Niño events, opposing climate patterns that recur in the Pacific Ocean, will become stronger and more frequent, leading to shifting hurricane patterns, flooding, and.