A Bold Research Enterprise
As one of the world’s premier research institutions, the University of Maryland has the power to transform lives by discovering new knowledge and putting it to work to benefit the state, our nation and the global community.
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Imagine a Climate of Hope.
WE CAN. UMD is a global leader in the study of climate change, with more than 200 researchers and experts working across disciplines in partnership with NASA, NOAA and other federal agencies to identify solutions for a global crisis. We’re committed to saving the planet–and the turtles.
![Funded by the National Science Foundation, University of Maryland researchers are partnering with teachers in three states to help give middle and high school student the tools to sort climate facts from misinformation.](https://umd-fearlessly.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/Climate-Change-Drawing.jpeg?w=1920&h=1080&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1682702087&s=2fae82beaa8d00d2992cde62522947f1)
UMD Researchers Partner With Teachers to Develop Kids’ Critical and Scientific Thinking Skills
![Royal Navy troops intercept two suspicious skiffs during anti-piracy operation in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia. A UMD study shows that rising ocean temperatures and falling fish populations in the area causes more crime at sea.](https://umd-fearlessly.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/Black-Flag.jpeg?w=1920&h=1080&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1682701750&s=7d674108e2f224705952f73e2621dd6b)
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UMD Institutional Grant Team Works to Provide Early Warning in Maryland, Beyond
![It's possible to take effective personal action against climate change that can help fight off global warming-based gloom, a UMD Extension specialist says.](https://umd-fearlessly.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/Doomism.jpeg?w=1920&h=1080&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1682529131&s=758072563fa023f0dfdc057a65486bb3)
Extension Specialist Offers Practical Tips—and Hope—Through Popular Webinars
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UMD professor, Dave Tilley, is aiming to make bus shelters greener, usable, and at least in terms of temperature, also cooler.
![Natalie Wathen ’26, left, and Amudha Krishnan ’26 look for the queen bee in a beehive presented by UMD’s Honey Bee Lab. “Our campus just became a pollinator campus, which is a really big deal because it means we’re working toward making sure our campus is safe for pollinators,” said Kensie Olson ’22, a technician in the Honey Bee Lab.](https://umd-fearlessly.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/EarthFest_04212023_SC_8802_1920x1080.jpg?w=1920&h=1080&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1682356678&s=9076876969b7b19b2a8356862746c750)
![Memes might seem like a silly way to get a laugh online, but they're also tools for misinformation. Doctoral student Jeff Henrikson is researching progressive and conservative approaches to climate change memes, as well as teaching students to examine them with a critical eye.](https://umd-fearlessly.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/climate-change-memes_1920x1080-1.jpg?w=1920&h=1080&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1681925789&s=a32961c15b18f30779a68d6717f64957)
![Just Stop Oil climate activists glue themselves to a Van Gogh painting at the Courtauld Gallery in London last June. Such performative tactics, what UMD researcher Dana R. Fisher calls “disruption as shock,” have become more popular among young climate activists.](https://umd-fearlessly.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/Stop-Oil.jpeg?w=1920&h=1080&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1681925663&s=207f69c3f5c8ede19d339fa27ae9f5d7)
Key Takeaways From UMD Expert’s Research on Activism, Policy in a Warming World
![Flames menace a Chino, Calif., neighborhood during the Blue Ridge Fire in October 2020. A new NIH grant will fund a groundbreaking UMD study of the effect of wildfires on infant health in the United States.](https://umd-fearlessly.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/Wildfire.jpeg?w=1920&h=1080&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1681925582&s=99571a909344c55557c13a8c0fee2aed)
The interdisciplinary Team Will Examine the Effects of Pollution and Stress on Fetal and Infant Health
![Research at the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Energy Engineering tackles the nuts and bolts of heating and cooling units to advance next-generation, carbon-free technology and improve efficiency.](https://umd-fearlessly.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/Engineering-Rooftop.jpeg?w=1920&h=1080&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1681924021&s=9eaeee453942547b1b868aecc9601b9c)
UMD Engineers Advance Heating and Cooling Technology to Push for a Greener Future
![Two new apples developed by a UMD team—one red and one yellow (below)—are far easier to grow and could be better suited to a warming climate than traditional varieties.](https://umd-fearlessly.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/Apples.jpeg?w=1920&h=1080&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1681923876&s=b00a82f70de3ec67dbc15865d27d5e10)
New Fruit From UMD Could Weather-Changing Climate and Labor Shortages to Boost Grower Profits
![Floodwaters fill a Florida home in the wake of category 5 Hurricane Ian in fall 2022. A UMD professor and his students have developed new tools to quantify the risk of extreme weather in the United States.](https://umd-fearlessly.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/Students-Take-On-Mortgage-Climate-Risk.jpeg?w=1920&h=1080&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1681492016&s=1c5ade7c1389a9f11c0181613c901339)
UMD Project Addresses Rising Price Tag of More-Volatile Weather Spurred by Global Warming
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Maryland Today - Grand Challenge
UMD Institutional Grant Team Works for Balanced Approaches to Existential Problems
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REI-Funded Center Promotes Nature-Based Research and Reparation
A UMD Public Health Scholar Seeks to Increase Outdoor Participation Among People of Color with Grant from REI's Cooperative Action Fund
![Fire and smoke rise from a forest fire at Nakhon Nayok province, 70 miles northeast of Bangkok, Thailand.](https://umd-fearlessly.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/Balt-Banner-Image-copy.jpg?w=916&h=610&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1682001624&s=18cf1fd760d71078888184245efd5118)
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.
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With New UMD Invention, All the Cool Kids Will Be Riding the Bus
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.
![The University Park Pollinator Meadow on Adelphi Road is one of over 30 pollinator refuges stretching from Greenbelt to the D.C. line,](https://umd-fearlessly.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/University-Park-Sign.jpg?w=1920&h=1080&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1680896674&s=169099a66b0e723486879fecccb39885)
Maryland Today - Bees Without Borders
Sustainability Program Unites Route One Communities to Build a Pathway for Pollinators.
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Maryland Today - Climate-tech Innovation
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.
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Baltimore’s Mr. Trash Wheel, Helmed by UMD Alum Adam Lindquist MCP ’10, Cleans Up City’s Waterways
![Maryland Governor Wes Moore met with representatives of UMD's Center for Global Sustainability, including Director Nate Hultman (below, left, speaking with Moore), as well as with Maryland Department of the Environment staff and representatives of the League of Conservation Voters to discuss Maryland's ambitious carbon emissions goals.](https://umd-fearlessly.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/2-Center-for-Global-Sustainability_2023-04-05-180349_sxli.jpg?w=1920&h=1080&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1680717938&s=b09ede35a3108c3d5bd5d9a2f14a13a6)
State Partners With UMD to Plan 60% Carbon Emissions Reduction, Moore Announces
Center for Global Sustainability Analysis Will Identify Opportunities for Greenhouse Gas Cuts
![An SUV outfitted with a range of air-monitoring sensors allows atmospheric and oceanic science tools down a Maryland road. Professor Russell Dickerson and students use the mobile lab to track sources and types of greenhouse gases around the state of Maryland.](https://umd-fearlessly.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/Behind-the-Wheel.jpg?w=1920&h=1080&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=crop&dm=1680718255&s=359a088862fb00fe75997fdc51e019df)
Behind the Wheel or in the Cockpit, Researcher Helps Marylanders Breathe Easier
Mobile Monitoring Tracks Greenhouse Gases and Other Pollutants
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Warming Makes Droughts, Extreme Wet Events More Frequent, Intense
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.
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Meet alums from the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences who have dedicated their careers to identifying climate change solutions.
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Is Spring Falling Out Of Sync?
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?
UMD's Global FEWture Alliance
Learn more about the Global FEWture Alliance, a UMD-based international alliance developing transformative food-energy-water (FEW) solutions to ensure community resilience in a changing climate. It's all happening now at the University of Maryland.
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Featured Event
EarthFest 2023
11 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, April 21, McKeldin Mall
EarthFest is a fun outdoor festival to celebrate Earth Month and sustainability efforts. UMD strives to empower students, faculty and staff to take sustainable steps by bringing local and global systems into balance, redesigning processes to conserve resources, and experimenting with novel sustainable practices.
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