1. Earth Day Founders

    It depends on the second meeting

    Ricky Rood reflects on President Ono’s stated commitment to carbon neutrality and its challenges.

  2. Stars in our eyes

    Astronomy consistently garners more public support than the earthbound sciences. Could it be those fancy telescopes?

  3. Globe animation with tsunami

    Dinosaur-killing asteroid triggered global tsunami

    The miles-wide asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago wiped out roughly three-quarters of the planet’s plant and animal species. Meanwhile, a monstrous tsunami scoured the ocean floor thousands of miles from impact.

  4. Map of social and natural risk, Great Lakes Region

    Preparing for climate-change migrants

    “Climate migrants” are on the move as frequent natural disasters upend their lives and routines. The Great Lakes region could see an influx in population as a result; U-M has tools for planning.

  5. A roaded collapsing into the sea due to sea level rise on the Holderness coast

    The allure of cycles

    Sea level rise has Ricky Rood thinking about what makes a cycle and what makes a trend.

  6. baseball on the plate

    The heat is on

    Cherry-picking temperature records? Yes, it happens, says Ricky Rood.

  7. Shards of wind-driven ice formed jumbled mounds, called ice shelves or ice ridges, on Saginaw Bay.

    How good are your coping skills?

    Sometimes we’re so good at coping with weather and climate change, we don’t realize we’re doing it.

  8. A view of the Marshall Fire in Boulder County, Colo., in December 2021.

    We need human learning more than machine learning

    Artificial intelligence is fine, says Ricky Rood, but human intelligence will drive the solution to our climate crisis.

  9. Wildfires destroy mountains

    Fair weather friends at COP26

    A November visit to A2 may be picturesque, thanks to the late-changing leaves. But there’s more to that story.

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