climate change

  1. Local community growing the natve coffee plant among the rainforest. Image credit: Julian Culverhouse

    Diverse forests hold huge carbon-storage potential, as long as we cut emissions, study shows

  2. Concept illustration of alternative energy. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    Michigan clean energy bills await Gov. Whitmer’s signature: U-M experts available to comment

  3. University of Michigan researcher Bill Sanders poses with a newly discovered skull and skeleton of a palaeoloxodont elephant, which is about 1.2 million years old. Image courtesy: Bill Sanders

    Elephants: Earth’s giant climate change canaries

  4. Concept illustration of a city in a heat wave. Image credit: Nicole Smith, Made with Midjourney

    Record heat, climate change: What experts want us to know

  5. Liesl Eichler Clark

    U-M SEAS names Liesl Eichler Clark inaugural director of sustainable climate action engagement

  6. Caribbean seagrass off the coast of Abaco, the Bahamas, with several white grunt fish. Image credit: Bridget Shayka.

    Caribbean seagrasses provide services worth $255B annually, including vast carbon storage, study shows

  7. A forest on fire. Image credit: skeeze from Pixabay

    Canadian wildfires prompt US health warnings: U-M experts available

  8. The Colorado River. Image credit: Gabriel Tovar, Unsplash

    Colorado River deal: U-M experts available

  9. The presence of mosses blanketing the soil is actually a positive indication rather than a negative one. Mosses play a crucial role in establishing the groundwork for the flourishing of other plant species. Image credit: University of New South Wales.

    Study: Modest moss supports billions of tons of carbon storage

  10. Concept illustration of migrants traveling on a road. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    Information about climate-induced migration spurs negative attitudes about immigrants

  11. Birds across the Americas are getting smaller and longer-winged as the world warms, and the smallest-bodied species are changing the fastest, according to a new University of Michigan-led study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The new study combines data from two previously published papers that measured body-size and wing-length changes in a total of more than 86,000 bird specimens over four decades in North and South America. The North American study was conducted by the Field Museum in Chicago. From above, this photograph shows birds from the Field Museum building-collision study. From left to right: golden-crowned kinglet, brown creeper, magnolia warbler, Blackburnian warbler, indigo bunting, rose-breasted grosbeak, wood thrush, American robin, brown thrasher. Image credit: (c) Field Museum, Daryl Coldren.

    Smallest shifting fastest: Bird species body size predicts rate of change in a warming world

  12. Aerial view of a forest with many types of trees. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    Study: Tree diversity increases storage of carbon and nitrogen in forest soils, mitigating climate change

  13. Concept illustration of a world covered in social media icons. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    New study shows social media content opens new frontiers for sustainability science researchers

  14. Bubbling water. Image credit: Daniel Sinoca, Unsplash

    PFAS regulations: U-M experts available to comment

  15. Morning glory flowers at U-M's Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Photo credit: Malia Santos

    Bigger flowers, greater rewards: Plants adapt to climate disruptions to lure pollinators

  16. Concept illustration of a man in front of his hurricane damaged home. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    Risk of death for people with dementia increases after a hurricane exposure

  17. Pumped Hydroelectric Storage Facility in Ludington Michigan. Image credit: US Government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

    Six U-M Carbon Neutrality Acceleration Program projects awarded a total of $1.2M

  18. Satellite Image Feb 12 2023 This MODIS satellite image from February 12th, 2023 shows below-average ice cover for this time of year on the Great Lakes. Image credit: NOAA GLERL / NOAA Great Lakes CoastWatch Node.

    Record-low Great Lakes ice coverage: U-M experts can discuss

  19. The stump of a 500-year-old juniper on the Tibetan Plateau, China. Deforestation has made forests younger and has also negatively impacted associated ecosystem functions and biodiversity. Image credit: Tsun Fung Au

    Old-growth trees more drought tolerant than younger ones, providing a buffer against climate change

  20. COP27 climate conference in Egypt: U-M experts available to discuss