climate change

  1. February 19, 2024

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  2. February 14, 2024

    Nearly 15% of Americans deny climate change, study finds

    Using social media data and artificial intelligence in a comprehensive national assessment, a U-M study reveals that nearly 15% of Americans deny that climate change is real.

  3. February 7, 2024

    Competition seeks to turn climate anxiety into action

    A School for Environment and Sustainability class is organizing a spring event to empower U-M students, faculty and staff to engage in efforts to build a sustainable and just future.

  4. November 2, 2023

    Elephants: Earth’s giant climate change canaries

    U-M researcher Bill Sanders has devoted his 40-year research career to tracking 60 million years of Afro-Arabian proboscidean — elephants and their ordinal relatives — evolution.

  5. October 9, 2023

    Drier savannas helping to slow rate of climate warming

    Savannas and grasslands in drier climates around the world store more heat-trapping carbon than scientists thought they did and are helping to slow the rate of climate warming.

  6. August 15, 2023

    Biosciences Initiative seeking applicants for Ideas Lab

    Applications are being sought for the Biosciences Initiative’s 2023  Ideas Lab, which will explore nature-based solutions to mitigate climate change.

  7. April 10, 2023

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  8. March 22, 2023

    U-M launches effort to support student climate education

    Students, staff and faculty representing an array of U-M units and disciplines collaborated recently at a Provost’s Seminar on Teaching to advance climate education for all students on the Ann Arbor campus.

  9. March 7, 2023

    Panel offers multidisciplinary perspectives on climate crisis

    Janet Napolitano, former University of California president, U.S. secretary of homeland security and Arizona governor, joined U-M sustainability experts for a panel discussion on climate action.

  10. February 20, 2023

    Wallenberg Fellow’s drawings illustrate climate change in Mexico

    Meghana Tummala, an undergraduate at the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, is the winner of the 2023 Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship.