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2026 COA Summer Institute celebrates 10 years with star-studded week
Toward a More Perfect Union focuses on the 250th birthday of American democracy while exploring the perils and promises shaping the future.
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Northeast Geological Society lauds watershed work
A self-designed research project mapping and monitoring a watershed in Acadia National Park wins the Best Student Poster Award for Sahra Gibson ’20 and collaborators at the Northeast Geological Society of Maine’s student conference.
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How A Man Born Into Poverty In Nepal Inspired Thousands Of Children To Finish School
Education pioneer Surya Karki ’16 has been working to transform Nepal’s school system since he was a student at College of the Atlantic, opening his first school in the country in 2015, as he tells The Telegraph. Since that time, Karki and his charity, United World Schools Nepal, have launched 30 schools, with seven more on…
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Don’t expect to see plastic straws at College of the Atlantic, the school has banned all single-use plastic products
News Center Maine reports on the “Break Free From Plastic” Pledge, an initiative that was proposed by students. The pledge is part of the plan to reduce all waste from campus by 2025.
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The Gulf of Maine is warming, and its whales are disappearing
Whales face a perilous situation as rapidly rising water temperatures affect their food sources, habitats, and migration patterns, College of the Atlantic Steven K. Katona Chair in Marine Sciences Dr. Sean Todd tells National Public Radio as part of their series, From Miami To Maine: Adapting To a Changing Climate.
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Mills names members of new maine council on climate change
Sun Journal writes on Maine Governor Janet Mills appointing Ania Wright ’20 as youth representative to her new, 39-member Maine Climate Council, convened to advise the Governor on strategies to meet the state’s ambitious goals on renewable energy generation and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Finding Amelia Earhart’s plane seemed impossible. Then Came a startling clue
Robert Ballard has found the Titanic and other famous shipwrecks. Now, Ballard’s crew, co-lead by Allison Fundis ’03, are trying to solve one of the 20th century’s greatest mysteries. Fundis is a rising explorer Ballard hopes will eventually take his place. “I feel like Leakey handing it off to Jane Goodall,” he says to the New York…
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This land is the only land there is
For everyone who lives on land, the planet’s dangerously warmed future is already here, according to the United Nations-led Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The Atlantic reports on complex political issues and deep concerns from the world’s developing nations highlight the panel’s latest report, says College of the Atlantic global environmental politics professor Doreen Stabinsky.
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Regrowing tropical forests recover fast in tree species richness, but slow in species composition
A team of ecologists from Latin America, the United States, and Europe, including College of the Atlantic botany professor Susan Letcher, publish a study in Science Advances showing that natural forest regeneration may be the ideal way to bring nearly one billion acres of tropical forest into restoration by 2030, as set under the Bonn Challenge.
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Skeletal exhibit construction underway in Maine of humpback whale found on Cape Cod
The story of Vector, who was well-known in New England waters, isn’t over, College of the Atlantic Allied Whale senior scientist Dan DenDanto ’91 says to the Boston Globe, who will be using the remains of the 45-foot humpback whale as part of a new exhibit.
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COA senior wins prestigious Watson Fellowship
Mona Ayoub ’19 will travel the world for a year exploring the roles and stories of women and mothers, and how different societies are addressing domestic violence, following the award of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship.
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As seas warm, whales face new dangers
The New York Times reports on the work being done at College of the Atlantic’s Mount Desert Rock field station to measure and inform on the warming in the Gulf of Maine