On May 5, the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management continued its Bren Seminar series with Postdoctoral Researcher Julie Edwards. Edwards’ lecture “Climate Change Detection and Attribution ...

Analysis of this tree ring/snowpack/river relationship—which was previously undocumented in eastern North America—suggests that the region was affected quite early by modern climate change.

The effects of climate change are complex ... that leave behind records of past environmental conditions, including tree rings. Trees form a ring of wood every year, and the width of that ring ...

The longer, warmer days of spring spark phenological changes in trees, from root to tip. As the limbs of trees stretch and ...

The largest hail tends to form in “supercell” thunderstorms and seems to be becoming more common as climate change continues ...

Michael Mann, a leading climate scientist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has gained recent attention due to ...

Funded by a three-year, $480,000 National Science Foundation grant, Bryan Black, an associate professor at the UA’s Laboratory of Tree-Ring ... how the climate is going to change in the future ...

Michigan’s forests face increasing wildfire risks as climate change worsens conditions everywhere. MLive recently examined that threat and a somewhat paradoxical environmental solution: experts say ...

As destructive as the West's biggest fires are, their flames still reach fewer places than wildfires touched historically.

A tree ring record extending back nearly three centuries suggests human-caused climate change is to blame for the increase in these disastrous compound events. This pattern can be especially damaging ...

With its crown on fire from the Windy Fire, a giant sequoia tree rains embers onto the ... Because of decades of fire suppression, ongoing climate- change-induced drought, and extreme heat ...

Fire was a historically frequent and recurring element of the Michigan landscape before the era of fire suppression that followed European colonization. Native people burned habitats for a variety of ...