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The number of people moving to Maine is more than making up for a shrinking native-born population, but a lack of housing and other infrastructure could limit future population growth.
The number of people moving to Maine is more than making up for a shrinking native-born population, but a lack of housing and other infrastructure could limit future population growth.
ORONO -- As the impacts of climate change grow, society and people struggle to adapt to the challenges of the new reality. Change, however, is difficult,
Change, albeit difficult, is imperative, necessitating shifts in both our ways of life and business practices and crucially, in our cultural paradigms.
Examining how human culture evolves in response to a changing environment may help with creating more effective climate change adaptation efforts. Using farming data from across the U.S., a team of researchers from the University of Maine and the University of Vermont (UVM) conducted the first-ever study of cultural adaptation to climate change. They found that in many places in the U.S. farmers are already adapting to climate change by selecting crops that grow better in new conditions. Focusing on the process of cultural adaptation can improve research and policy to help adapt to a warming w...