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• Earth's Oceans Are Getting Hotter And Higher, And It's Accelerating

  The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its latest report on the oceans, and it's not good. The report also notes a relatively …

  Press Clips | NPR.org

• Gulf of Maine Research Institute launches virtual climate center

  It will identify solutions to rising sea temperatures in a part of the ocean warming faster than almost any other.

  Press Clips | Portland Press Herald

• Can't Take The Heat? Get Out And Teach Kids About Climate Change

  A high-quality curriculum on climate change will give kids the information and tools needed to become their own climate heroes.

  Press Clips | Forbes

• Study: Maine Fishermen Should Plan For Accelerated Ocean Warming

  Climate change is triggering more and more surprise variations in temperatures in the world’s oceans, including off Maine, and those spikes are changing

  Press Clips | Maine Public

• Maine white fish a hit in UMF dining hall as university looks to source local

  It's healthy food; it adds to consumer demand and gives fishermen more options when they're fishing; and it introduces students to new species.

  Press Clips | Portland Press Herald

• Changing climate to put further pressure on New England, federal report predicts

  It says 'iconic fisheries' in the Northeast, including lobster, face a bleaker future because of rising acidity levels in the ocean.

  Press Clips | Portland Press Herald

• An ocean ‘heat wave’ just drove temperatures off Maine to near-record highs

  There are “weird things happening in the Gulf of Maine,” a scientist says.

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• Buckfield teacher receives McCarthy Education Innovation Award

  PORTLAND — The Gulf of Maine Research Institute honored Buckfield Junior-Senior High School teacher Gretchen Kimball with the fifth annual McCarthy Education Innovation Award. GMRI …

  Press Clips | Lewiston Sun Journal

• Climate Change Brought a Lobster Boom. Now It Could Cause a Bust.

  Warming waters in the Gulf of Maine have benefited lobsters and the lobstermen who trap them. But as temperatures rise further, will the industry reach …

  Press Clips | The New York Times

• Demand for underused fish species grows slowly but surely in Maine

  The trend may have something to do with a three-year-old Gulf of Maine Research Institute effort to get restaurants to serve less-traditional catches.

  Press Clips | Press Herald