climate News Archive
![An aerial view of Winnipeg's downtown and rivers with a blue overlay filter.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Forks-Image_Blue-150x150.jpg)
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
UM to host Water and Climate Justice Event – Funded by SSHRC Connections Grant
May 13, 2024 —
The UM is hosting a public event titled "Water and Climate Justice: Advancing Intersectional Approaches." at the Canadian Human Rights Museum on Tuesday May 28th.
![Holiday Wrapping](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/box-2953722_1280-1-150x150.jpg)
Sustainability
12 Days of Sustainable Giving Returns
November 24, 2022 —
The holiday season is quickly approaching; the Office of Sustainability shares twelve suggestions to have a climate-friendly, zero waste holiday.
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Sustainability
UM Climate Action Plan underway
May 10, 2021 —
UM community invited to participate in a short survey and series of online lunch-and-lunch sessions about UM’s Climate Action Plan currently in development
![Canada Excellence Research Chair, Dr. Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (right), led the team that discovered the plant fossiles inside the Cold War-era ice samples](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Dahl-Jensen_WEB-150x150.jpg)
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Scientists stunned to discover fossil plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice, indicating an ice-free landscape in a warmer climate
March 15, 2021 —
The discovery helps confirm a new and troubling understanding that the Greenland ice has melted off entirely during recent warm periods in Earth’s history—periods like the one we are now contributing to with human-caused climate change.
![Dr. Juliana Marson, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Earth Observation Science (CEOS), University of Manitoba](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/P1020964-150x150.jpg)
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Meet Dr. Juliana Marini Marson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environment and Geography
March 8, 2021 —
Dr. Juliana Marson is a new faculty member at the University of Manitoba whose research focus lies on the polar oceans, their interactions with the cryosphere and climate.
![Dr. Feiyue Wang Professor at the Centre for Earth Observation Science & Canada Research Chair (Tier 1)](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/FeiyueWang1_web-150x150.jpg)
UM prof receives national award for environmental research
February 18, 2021 —
Canada Research Chair honoured by professional chemistry organization
![Thaw slumps are also a sign of the permafrost warming. These can be seen just barely in the satellite image as small dark regions along cliff faces, both facing the ocean and within the river drainage basins. Erosion and slumping expose ancient organic carbon to the air and the hydrosphere, thus providing an extensive positive feedback to climate warming.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/08-Thomsen-River-2015-09921_web-150x150.jpg)
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Thomsen River Estuary, Banks Island: Photo Essay
January 28, 2021 —
NASA and UM team up to show the remote beauty of Northern Canada
![Arctic shrub Betula nana Northern Alaska; Photo: Agata Buchwal](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Betula-nana-Northern-Alaska-Photo-by-Agata-Buchwal-150x150.jpg)
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Declining Arctic sea ice drives divergent arctic shrub growth
December 15, 2020 —
Arctic sea ice has been in steep decline over the last two decades. Meanwhile, tundra shrub abundance has been increasing in many regions of the Arctic.
![Optical measurement of a melt pond; Photo: Pierre Coupel](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Optical-measurement-of-a-melt-pond-150x150.jpg)
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Synthesis study demonstrates phytoplankton can bloom below Arctic sea ice
November 19, 2020 —
Until roughly a decade ago, most scientists assumed that phytoplankton remained in a sort of stasis throughout the winter and spring until sea ice break-up. Now there is a growing body of evidence that suggests under-ice blooms (UIBs) of phytoplankton can occur in low-light environments below sea ice.
![Dr. Alex Crawford](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/thumbnail_AcadNP-Jordan-Pond-Selfie-150x150.jpg)
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Meet Alex Crawford, Research Associate at the Centre for Earth Observation Science
October 23, 2020 —
Dr. Crawford studies how the complex interactions of various components of the Arctic climate system are changing in response to continued warming.