climate change News Archive
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Asper School of Business
Policy Options: How gleaning food addresses greenhouse gas emissions and food insecurity
February 3, 2023 —
Canada faces two pressing and related sustainability issues: food insecurity and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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Faculty of Graduate Studies
Monitoring the melting of permafrost
December 12, 2022 —
As Earth's climate warms this UM grad has created an innovative tool to ensure our buildings remain safe.
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Squirrel sperm and feet tell a different climate change story
November 28, 2022 —
Two UM studies found that climate change is altering ground squirrels’ sperm and feet, and this warns of big consequences potentially coming to endangered ecosystems.
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UM researcher and scientist adds perspective to climate change documentary
May 12, 2022 —
A new documentary is investigating the impact of climate change on the eroding Greenland ice sheet
![David Barber, Rh Award](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/unimdf151029-48_edit-150x150.jpg)
Mourning the loss of visionary Arctic researcher, Dr. David Barber
April 16, 2022 —
Through his vision, leadership and endless efforts, Dr. Barber established UM as a global leader in Arctic research
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Rainfall in the Arctic will soon be more common than snowfall
November 30, 2021 —
Changes will happen decades earlier than previously thought
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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.
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Op-ed: Transport Canada 2030 strategic plan missing a key plank
February 24, 2021 —
“The way to build a strong future is by both protecting the environment and creating good jobs,” the Prime Minister has said. And electrically-powered cargo airships meet this criterion.