climate change

  1. Two heatmap-style graphs depict monthly temperature extremes for Lake Superior from 1941 to 2021. The y-axis represents months (1 to 12), and the x-axis shows years. "Degree heating days (°C·days)" are shown in the heat waves plot using a red color gradient, ranging from 0 (white) to 120 (dark red). Four notable heat waves are apparent before 1996, with five following 1996. Black lines indicate "breakpoints" or significant shifts in trends around 1970, 1986, 1996 and 2001. The cold spell plot shows "Degree cooling days (°C·days)" using a blue color gradient. Darker blue indicates more intense cold spells, with white corresponding to no anomaly and dark blue showing a -120 degree cooling day. Three intense cooling events are seen in the 1940s and early 50s, but largely vanish until 1996. The most intense heat waves and cold spells tend to happen in the summer for Lake Superior.

    The Great Lakes are in an extreme new era

  2. A view of the Mackinac Bridge and the Straits of Mackinac as seen from Mackinaw City, Michigan. Image credit: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    Line 5’s history, legal standing and environmental impact: U-M experts weigh in

  3. A view of the Mackinac Bridge and the Straits of Mackinac as seen from Mackinaw City, Michigan. Image credit: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    Line 5 and American Indian law: ‘It’s really quite Orwellian.’

  4. A view of the Mackinac Bridge and the Straits of Mackinac as seen from Mackinaw City, Michigan. Image credit: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    Line 5 and its risks: ‘The consequences of failure would be catastrophic.’

  5. A view of the Mackinac Bridge and the Straits of Mackinac as seen from Mackinaw City, Michigan. Image credit: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    Line 5 and its story in Michigan: ‘It’s had more twists and turns than a Russian spy novel.’

  6. A view of the Mackinac Bridge and the Straits of Mackinac as seen from Mackinaw City, Michigan. Image credit: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    Line 5 and climate change: ‘We don’t have an energy emergency. We have a willpower emergency.’

  7. Michigan Minds podcast: Reasons for hope amid grim climate news

  8. Podcast: U-M experts explore role of corporate governance amid political, environmental tumult

  9. A map of the world shows emissions by country in grayscale—darker countries are higher emitters—while blue shading in the water indicates impacts on sea level rise along coasts and on fisheries away from land. The maps shows how low emitters, in Africa for example, can still be hit hard by the impacts of climate change.

    Finding ‘win-win-wins’ for climate, economics and justice

  10. Michigan Minds podcast: Shalanda Baker talks about sustainability and climate action at U-M

  11. A rainbow arcs over the Maloti Mountains in highland Lesotho. Images courtesy: Brian Stewart, University of Michigan

    Lesotho: Where we learned to be human

  12. Concept illustration of wildfires, windstorms and heatwaves. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    Wildfires, windstorms and heatwaves: How extreme weather threatens nature’s essential services

  13. Several towels hang on a clothesline hanging in front of a yellow building with green shutters.

    Clothes dryers and the bottom line: Switching to air drying can save hundreds

  14. Concept illustration of a group of moms who are scientists advocating for climate change solutions via conversation. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    How should we address the climate crisis? Talk about it, says climate scientist, nonprofit group

  15. A man holds a thin disc in his right hand with forceps. He inserts the disc into a round clamp, which he holds in his left hand.

    New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals

  16. A cluster of E. coli bacterial cells appear as orange rod-shaped structures in a colorized micrograph. Image credit: National Institutes of Health (CC BY-NC 2.0)

    Extreme rain heightens E. coli risks for communities of color in Texas

  17. High temperature thermometer with city view. Image credit: coffeekai, iStock

    2024 global temperature, climate assessment: U-M experts available to comment

  18. Michigan Minds podcast: Finding the metals necessary for the energy transition

  19. A capuchin monkey called Tiny groups fellow monkey Tevez in the Taboga forest reserve of Costa Rica. The monkeys are part of the Capuchinos de Taboga Research Project. Image credit: Capuchinos de Taboga Field Research Team

    Warming temperatures impact immune performance of wild monkeys, U-M study shows

  20. Concept illustration depicting food crops growing in an urban district. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    The time is ripe to support urban agriculture