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Warm winters are a wet blanket for small ski slopes in northern Michigan
-For businesses that depend on snow and cold temperatures, this weather has been tough.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeFeature HomepageLatest NewsMichiganNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchAs Michigan winters vanish, researchers study snow for clues about what’s next
-Scientists once believed little important happened during winters. But as they vanish, the study of snowpack is increasing.
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Globe breaks heat record for 8th straight month. Golfers get to play in Minnesota’s ‘lost winter’
-For the eighth straight month in January, Earth was record hot, according to the European climate agency. That was obvious in the northern United States, where about 1,000 people were golfing last month in a snow-starved Minneapolis during what the state is calling “the Lost Winter of 2023-24.”
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeCollaborationHistory and CultureLatest NewsMichiganNewsRecreation and TourismScience, Technology, ResearchTourismMichigan’s lost winter cancels sturgeon season, ski, dog sled races
-Cancellations mount as Michigan experiences one of the warmest winters in memory. Experts blame El Niño and climate change.
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Climate ChangeLake ErieLatest NewsMichiganNew YorkNewsOhioResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchSmart buoys help brace Great Lakes for environmental challenges
-Lake Erie is the first of the Great Lakes getting connected to the internet with a series of offshore “smart” buoys. And it’s not just for sending texts on the water.
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Climate ChangeFeature HomepageHistory and CultureIndigenous CommunitiesIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMichiganNewsScience, Technology, Research‘It only makes sense’: Houses of worship adding solar arrays
-Organizations across the country are focused on getting more houses of worship to install solar panels, including in Michigan.
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Climate ChangeLake ErieLatest NewsNewsRecreation and TourismRecreational Hunting and FishingScience, Technology, ResearchTourismLake Erie is 13% frozen, expect less freezing in the future
-The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said ice on the Great Lakes decreased by 5% each decade for 50 years.
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Climate ChangeFeature HomepageHabitat RestorationIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentInfrastructureLatest NewsMichiganNewsScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsElk Rapids wants to help its shoreline through new state Climate Corps program
-Michigan is working with communities and organizations to tackle climate change by funding new staff positions.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeCollaborationEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeScience, Technology, ResearchMichigan lawmakers have more energy priorities in 2024
-Michigan lawmakers made sweeping changes to Michigan energy laws last fall. But plenty of items missed the cut, from community solar to finding solutions for Michigan’s outage-prone power grid.
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Climate ChangeDetroitFeature DetroitIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMichiganNewsProtectScience, Technology, ResearchWhy poor air quality isn’t just a summer problem in Detroit
-“Atmospheric inversions” caused several days of polluted air this week in much of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, though it did not rise to the level of an air quality action alert.
