ANN ARBOR – Officials at the University of Michigan announced the selection of the President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality, a team that will recommend how the university will reach the goal of becoming a carbon neutral institution, as well as develop transferable strategies that can be used by other institutions and larger communities to achieve
ANN ARBOR - Global surface temperatures surged by a record amount from 2014 to 2016, boosting the total amount of warming since the start of the last century by more than 25 percent in just three years, according to a University of Arizona-led team that includes a University of Michigan scientist. "Our paper is the
WASHINGTON — The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a sweeping federal climate change report awaiting approval by the Trump administration. The draft report by scientists from 13 federal agencies concludes that Americans are feeling the
LONDON - If leading scientists writing in one of the most respected academic journals are right, planet Earth could be on course for global warming of more than seven degrees Celsius within a lifetime. And that, according to one of the world’s most renowned climatologists, could be “game over.” Scientists have long tried to work
ANN ARBOR - In a new study from University of Michigan, co-funded by the American Petroleum Institute, researchers challenges the widely held assumption that biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel are inherently carbon neutral. Contrary to popular belief, the heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas emitted when biofuels are burned is not fully balanced by the CO2
ANN ARBOR - The number of Americans who believe there is no evidence of global warming hit its lowest level in eight years, yet more Republicans are unsure that there is evidence of climate change even as 2016 is shaping up as the warmest year on record. A new report from the National Surveys on
WASHINGTON DC - Climate change is a major threat to human health, with extreme heat likely to kill 27,000 Americans annually by 2100, according to a report released by the White House. The report, by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, outlines numerous ways global warming could devastate public health in the U.S. this century.
GRAND RAPIDS - West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum will present a luncheon highlighting global and local responses to climate change and energy issues January 11 at Grand Valley State University’s Seidman Forum. Featured speakers include Natural Capital Partners Executive Vice President Mark LaCroix and Center for Climate Strategies Chairman Steve Chester, WMSBF member delegates to
