climate change News Archive
![PhD candidate Lisa Matthew excites students with parallels between her research methods and video games](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/IMG_5838-2-150x150.jpg)
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
How video games help teach Arctic climate science
March 12, 2020 —
More than 150 middle-and-high school learners met with climate researchers on March 5 for Arctic Science Day. Students learned how new knowledge is developed from working in harsh Arctic conditions, and how the learning process can be a lot like playing video games.
![Polar bears in the Western Hudson Bay area lounging on rocks](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/polar-bears-by-David-Yurkowski-150x150.jpg)
Climate change threatens iconic relationship
February 27, 2020 —
National Polar Bear Day a somber affair this year
![Dr. Dorthe Dahl-Jensen receives the 2020 Mohn Prize - Photo: Alberto Grohovaz / Arctic Frontiers 2020.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/49451286007_413c8a7a4b_o-150x150.jpg)
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
CEOS chair receives prize for Arctic climate research
January 30, 2020 —
The prize aims to put relevant issues for future Arctic development onto the national and international agenda
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Desautels Faculty of Music
The acoustics of Iceland
January 27, 2020 —
Ís, an interactive installation, the result of a collaboration between the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Architecture and Desautels Faculty of Music, was on display Jan. 29th - Feb. 5th
![Youth climate activist Greta Thunberg meets with Dr. Julienne Stroeve, Senior Canada-150 Research Chair in Climate Forcing of Sea Ice at the University of Manitoba Centre for Earth Observation Science (CEOS)](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Greta-150x150.jpg)
A year of resistance: How youth protests shaped the discussion on climate change
December 20, 2019 —
Greta Thunberg made history again this month when she was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year
![Purple Martin perched on a stick](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/17104665180_97d47d265a_k-150x150.jpg)
A (sorta) good news story about a songbird and climate change
December 12, 2019 —
A recent discovery suggests Purple Martins, unlike other long-distance migratory songbirds, show promise of being able to adapt to climate change
![University of Manitoba Senior Canada-150 Research Chair Julienne Stroeve (Credit: Terje Mortensen/Arctic Frontiers 2017)](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Stroeve-AF-1-150x150.jpg)
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
European Geosciences Union awards medal to CEOS scholar
November 7, 2019 —
Senior Canada-150 Research Chair at the Centre for Earth Observation Science (CEOS), Dr. Julienne Stroeve, will receive the EGU Cryospheric Sciences Division Medal.
![A clear blue Arctic sky.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/HowDoWeProtectThePristineArctic-150x150.jpg)
Wpg Free Press: Winnipeg scientists among 11,000 around world declaring ‘climate emergency’
November 6, 2019 —
David Barber, an eminent climate researcher at the University of Manitoba, hopes the study can move Canadians beyond the status quo
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Three conversations we need to have – right now
October 29, 2019 —
New Visionary Conversations series to address pressing issues in our community, world
![Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of Manitoba Centre for Earth Observation Science receives the 2020 Mohn Prize](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DortheUMcrop-150x150.png)
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
UM researcher awarded the Mohn Prize
October 28, 2019 —
Dr. Dahl-Jensen receives the Mohn Prize for her research and leadership in combining ice core data with climate models to reconstruct past climate and its impact on the Greenland ice sheet and global climate