global warming Archives - Centralmaine.com

In post-fact society, emotions and ideology increasingly squelch scientific evidence

by Marina Schauffler October 30, 2016

The candidates in next week’s election offer stark differences on turning back climate change.

Despite slightly cooler global temperatures in September, the year is still on pace to be the hottest on record.

by Mary Pols October 9, 2016

Students and professors dig in deep for lessons on climate change.

by Marina Schauffler October 2, 2016

Periwinkles, urchins and mussels are going, going, gone, as climate change threatens us.

by SETH BORENSTEIN September 21, 2016

A new estimation technique using GPS finds the annual loss is some 40 trillion pounds more than the current figure.

Maine Adult Education has organized a lower-carbon way for people to get to the fair and avoid the infamous traffic jam.

The average temperature of 68.9 degrees was 2 degrees above normal and 0.2 degrees above the previous record, set in 2010 and 1988.

He returns from a three-day fact-finding trip with plan to call for more U.S. icebreakers to clear Arctic trade routes.

by SETH BORENSTEIN August 24, 2016

A slight warming can now be tracked to around 1850 in North America, Europe and Asia, rather than the late 1800s.

by Marina Schauffler August 21, 2016

Kerry Emanuel of MIT suggests a new warning system and policies that account for increases in flooding, among other reforms.