Environmental health

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A passion for pollinators

Entomology grad student Maya Vellicolungara works to increase bumblebee and butterfly abundance and diversity.

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What can you do about climate change?

U of M faculty member Heidi Roop offers 100 accessible ideas in a new book.

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Alum launches AppleTV+ series imagining a future increasingly damaged by climate change

More than a decade after success with the film Contagion, Scott Z. Burns launches a still more ambitious ‘What if?’

The compact yellow flowers of common tansy in a sunlit field, surrounded by grasses.

Research Brief

Minnesota’s invasive tansy spread impacted by land use

A genomic study by U of M researchers sheds light on how common tansy has spread through the state.

Close up of a Boreal Oak Lichen hanging on a small branch in a forest.

Research Brief

Lichen partnerships challenged by changes in the Northwoods

Biologists at the University of Minnesota have found that lichen symbioses are more complex than previously understood.

Collage of images including a river, individual standing in a field looking away, and X-ray

News Release

U of M System ranks fifth in US in sustainability impact

THE Impact Rankings compare universities across the globe for their efforts with UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. In 2024, the U of M System placed in the top 10% worldwide.

Vegetation appears green when seen by human eyes under natural lighting (top row) while chlorophyll fluorescence appears as red glow from leaves (bottom row). From left to right are seedlings of a cucumber, tomato, lettuce and spider plant.

Research Brief

Scientists use ‘leaf glow’ to understand changing climate

Remotely-detected glow reveals northern ecosystem changes.

Students standing in front of a solar array on a sunny day.

Talking with U of M

Talking school-based solar energy with U of M

As Earth Day approaches, many Minnesotans are striving to make environmentally-friendly decisions that will protect our ecosystem for generations to come.