Five questions with Julia Cole, chair of the U-M Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and lead author of a new study about the growing intensity of El Niños.

Dangerous amounts of heat and air pollution swirl in most commercial kitchens — even when the stoves are off. Switching to electric appliances helps…

When should you retire a machine, and when should you keep it alive on duct tape and borrowed time? The answers are not what this columnist expected.

However the U.S. Supreme Court rules, the work of holding oil companies accountable for climate change has a bright future.

Seven months into the US conflict with Iran, with no clear end in sight, the global oil market has now largely exhausted the safety measures that exist to keep a lid on petroleum prices.

When Palau President Surangel Samuel Whipps Jr. recently took his children to his nation's Helen Island, two-thirds of it was gone. Rising seas caused by climate change had swallowed generational buri...

Our U-M SEAS online program bridges the gap between technical science and organizational strategy—giving you the skills and knowledge needed to become a sustainability leader.100% online flexibility: ...

The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast

In Malibu, the Pacific Ocean opened a sinkhole near the home of movie star Nicolas Cage and wreaked havoc on beachfront property. Along Beach Road in the city of Dana ​Point, waves destroyed one home ...

Toxic smoke will soon be everyone’s problem.

The United Nations Environment Program released a report earlier this month saying the world – which is already experiencing roughly 1.3˚C of warming – will miss the 1.5˚C climate change target set by...

Making deforestation look climate-friendly will encourage a lot more deforestation.

Trump-supporting states are driving the solar boom even as Republican policies complicate its future.

Interior is using tax dollars to pay firms to ditch offshore wind leases and invest in fossil fuels instead. California just became the eighth state to…

As these bacterial explosions increase worldwide, researchers are racing to study their health impacts

Warming ocean waters are teeing up a particularly strong El Niño weather pattern.

“The climate crisis is edging its way into the American psyche. So why are so many Democratic leaders waging a hushing campaign?”

Bird deaths are often used as an argument against wind power. Data from the U.S. and Germany shows why that argument needs more context than it gets.

A reconstruction of Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures adds to the evidence that human-caused warming is boosting El Niño events.

The vibrant biodiversity of the Galápagos Islands has helped biologists from Charles Darwin onward unlock the mysteries of evolution.

The Iran war could serve as a turning point in accelerating the global transition away from fossil fuels: Every additional day that oil and gas prices are high and future supplies are uncertain...

Hot water and low river levels have hampered nuclear power in Europe this summer, forcing a reckoning over plant preparedness.

More damaging extremes are looming, as the Pacific Ocean’s climate cauldron sets off a chain reaction of heatwaves, floods and droughts across the globe.

As an El Niño of historic proportions is taking shape in the tropical Pacific, a University of Michigan study has found that El Niño events have become nearly 40% stronger in the last 40 years than th...

Scientists went to the heart of the El Niño pattern to learn from living and fossil corals. The results show El Niño’s intensifying coincides with global warming.

Droughts in the United States are becoming more intense and unpredictable, and the nation needs to develop a new drought assessment framework to better understand and address them, according to a new ...

So far this year, it has built more battery capacity than any state besides Texas. But political shifts could complicate the long-term growth trajectory.

There have been numerous floods in the U.S. this summer, and more are predicted for the fall and winter.

Gov. Mike Braun called on the local utility to “match the urgency” of Gary area residents who have had to endure an outage approaching its second week.

Towering woodlands in the West are being permanently replaced by tracts of spiky shrubs. Conditions “just aren’t normal anymore,” one researcher said.

Decades ago, the state won funding for a massive Colorado River project by agreeing to be first in line for cuts at a time of deep drought. The Trump administration says that time has come.

Hotter summers are wreaking havoc across transportation infrastructure. One solution: Paint everything white.

Understanding what happened in these forests 56 million years ago may help humanity recognize similar thresholds before we cross them again, the lead author of a new study writes.

Hello! Water shortages and drought have hit nations in Europe and Africa as temperatures continue to swelter around the world.

With gas prices high, people in developing countries are lining up to buy battery-powered bikes. We took a spin around Lahore, Pakistan, on a small-but-mighty one.

July was the hottest month ever recorded in the United States, according to data released Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Repeated heat waves, wildfires, droughts and storms are solidifying the understanding that new investments are unavoidable.

Dutch growth is set to be almost entirely wiped out, and France could be pushed into a contraction.

Informal miners, recyclers and waste workers help power the shift to renewable energy, yet their labour is often overlooked in sustainability debates.

More than 20,000 people were ordered to leave their homes overnight in western Canada as a fast-moving wildfire grew rapidly and raced toward towns along British Columbia’s Okanagan Lake, destroying h...

It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.

The Bureau of Reclamation released its long-awaited Colorado River drought plan, targeting Lower Basin states for cuts.

Research that used a federal grant to pay for asthma patients to have their gas stoves replaced showed a dramatic fall in asthma attacks. The program was cut short after President Donald Trump took of...

An Arizona community nearly dried up and imposed strict limits, and its crisis may be a glimpse of the West’s future.

Podcast Episode · Stateside On Air · July 23 · 50m