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UMD Researchers Partner With Teachers to Develop Kids’ Critical and Scientific Thinking Skills

New UMD Study Links Piracy to Oceanic Ecological Shifts

UMD Institutional Grant Team Works to Provide Early Warning in Maryland, Beyond

Extension Specialist Offers Practical Tips—and Hope—Through Popular Webinars

UMD professor, Dave Tilley, is aiming to make bus shelters greener, usable, and at least in terms of temperature, also cooler. 

EarthFest Celebrates Sustainability on Campus

UMD Doctoral Student Delves Into Dark Humor About Global Challenge

Key Takeaways From UMD Expert’s Research on Activism, Policy in a Warming World

The interdisciplinary Team Will Examine the Effects of Pollution and Stress on Fetal and Infant Health

UMD Engineers Advance Heating and Cooling Technology to Push for a Greener Future

New Fruit From UMD Could Weather-Changing Climate and Labor Shortages to Boost Grower Profits

UMD Project Addresses Rising Price Tag of More-Volatile Weather Spurred by Global Warming

UMD Institutional Grant Team Works for Balanced Approaches to Existential Problems

A UMD Public Health Scholar Seeks to Increase Outdoor Participation Among People of Color with Grant from REI's Cooperative Action Fund

Amir Sapkota, professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UMD’s School of Public Health, has researched the impact of air pollution on the heart and the lungs, and how climate disruptions can increase health risks for kidney patients needing dialysis or exacerbate health burdens for low-income groups.

UMD-born business, Living Canopies, will soon help riders seeking shelter from the storm—or sun—by offering protective, energy-producing and beautiful transit oases.

Sustainability Program Unites Route One Communities to Build a Pathway for Pollinators.

A new study that includes several UMD researchers focused on the benefit of data-driven corporate investment in climate tech startup companies, as well as policies to support such actions.

Baltimore’s Mr. Trash Wheel, Helmed by UMD Alum Adam Lindquist MCP ’10, Cleans Up City’s Waterways

Center for Global Sustainability Analysis Will Identify Opportunities for Greenhouse Gas Cuts

Mobile Monitoring Tracks Greenhouse Gases and Other Pollutants

A new University of Maryland and NASA study confirms that major droughts and pluvials—periods of excessive precipitation and water storage on land—have indeed been occurring more often.

Meet alums from the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences who have dedicated their careers to identifying climate change solutions.

Each year, it feels like spring comes as a surprise—too early or too late. And that could be a problem because plants and animals use environmental cues, like temperature, to know when to flower, migrate, breed, or emerge from hibernation. So when the seasons are thrown off, what happens to those natural rhythms that once flowed together seamlessly?