climate change News Archive

July 2, 2024 — 
Melting of Alaska’s Juneau icefield accelerates, losing snow nearly 5 times faster than in the 1980s

June 27, 2024 — 
Dr. Dorthe Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, along with four colleagues, won the prestigious BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category. Dr. Dahl-Jensen and her team were lauded for their work on using ice cores in Greenland to track the relationship of greenhouse gas concentrations to changes in climate over the past 800,000 years.    

June 21, 2024 — 
New report says there could be negative impacts as sub-Arctic killer whales move north

June 13, 2024 — 
Record low May sea ice rings alarm bells for Canada's Hudson Bay polar bears

June 13, 2024 — 
For the first time, a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, including UM's Julienne Stroeve and Alex Crawford, analyzed sea ice thickness against polar bear and seal survival across all of Hudson Bay; due to faster-than-expected sea ice loss, scientists predict localized polar bear extinction.

June 13, 2024 — 
A UM researcher is part of team of North American researchers who used a new chip to track the diversity and hybridization between polar bears and grizzly bears. Read more about the research and the new tool they used to find out just how common this kind of hybridization might be around the world.

May 28, 2024 — 
Effects of warmer Atlantic Ocean now being felt in northern Manitoba, experts say

May 13, 2024 — 
CBC Manitoba: Air quality and the UM AirSAFE Research Centre

April 30, 2024 — 
Dr. Fikret Berkes, Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the Natural Resources Institute, Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources, has recently published a book that explores ecological resilience, with an innovative discussion toward planning for an increasingly unpredictable future.

April 22, 2024 — 
WEC announces centennial world energy leadership award winners