climate change

  1. John Lenters, senior research specialist at the U-M Biological Station, left, and Resident Biologist Adam Schubel both won the trophy for the annual staff contest to guess the spring ice-out date on Douglas Lake, which occurred on March 16 this year. Image credit: U-M Biological Station

    Earliest recorded ‘ice-out’ date on Douglas Lake at U-M Biological Station in northern Michigan

  2. Earth Month promotional graphic

    Earth Month puts focus on U-M sustainability efforts

  3. Hydraulic coral coring. Image credit: Eric Matson, Australian Institute of Marine Science

    A wetter world recorded in Australian coral colony

  4. View of the Chicago downtown over lake Michigan. Image credit: iStock

    Historically low Great Lakes ice coverage: U-M experts available

  5. Climate change denial and belief relative to political affiliation. Image credit: Gounaridis and Newell in Scientific Reports, February 2024

    Nearly 15% of Americans deny climate change is real, AI study finds

  6. View of the Chicago downtown over lake Michigan. Image credit: iStock

    Great Lakes ice: U-M experts available to discuss

  7. Local mini hydro plant in the Nepalese Himilayas. Image courtesy: Graham Institute

    U-M ‘catalyst grants’ address climate resilience, sustainability

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

    Climate change threatens global forest carbon sequestration, study finds

  9. Collage of headlines of storms. Image credit: iStock

    Communicating about climate change more effective when stories about those displaced hit ‘close to home’

  10. Concept illustration of transitioning away fossil fuels. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    COP28 climate deal: U-M experts available to comment

  11. UN Climate Change Conference COP28 | Dubai, 1 December 2023. Image credit: Paul Kagame, via Flicker Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

    COP28 climate conference in Dubai: U-M experts available to comment

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Liesl Eichler Clark

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

  17. 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

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

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

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

    Colorado River deal: U-M experts available

  20. 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