What's New Do Your Part! for Climate Friendly Parks National Parks Conservation Association (6/26) Do Your Part! for Climate Friendly Parks is the first interactive online program in the U.S. that provides national park visitors and supporters with the tools to understand and reduce their carbon footprints, helping to protect our national parks from global warming.
Pine beetle devastates Canadian forest, may fuel global warming Bloomberg (6/18) The beetle's next prey may be the boreal forest, about 1.5 billion acres (607 million hectares) of woodlands stretching from Alaska across Canada to the Atlantic coast, dipping into the northern Great Lakes states.
State scientists keep water flow grounded Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (6/16) A new study is among the first to show the historical connection of climate and agricultural practices on groundwater flow, and could have important implications on the ecology of the Wisconsin’s river systems.
Great Lakes Restoration and the Threat of Global Warming Healing Our Waters® - Great Lakes Coalition (6/9) A new report examines the impacts global warming will likely have on the Great Lakes —from more sewage overflows to lower lake levels. The report finds that the Great Lakes can lessen the impact of global warming or become global warming’s victim — it all depends on Congress. Read the press release
General Resources Climate Change The Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation Through research and education, the Coastal Centre is raising the awareness of climate change locally, and encouraging individuals, school groups and communities to pay more attention to this important issue.
Climate Change Environment Canada A clearinghouse of climate change related information.
Climate Change and Variability Program NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) This research program brings together projects that examine the potential effects of climate change on the Great Lakes water resources and ecosystem.
Global Climate Change Resources Sustainable Minnesota Information on climate change in Minnesota and worldwide as well as plots of annual temperature trends.
Global Warming Impacts on the Great Lakes U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) A joint project of EPA, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service, this report outlines the potential effects of climate change on wildlife and wildlands in the Great Lakes and Upper Midwest.
Impacts of Climate Change on the Great Lakes Basin Environment Canada and NOAA The goal of this 1998 project is to improve our understanding of the complex interactions between climate variability and change, the environment, and social and economic systems so that informed regional adaptation responses can be developed for the sustainable management of the Basin.
The Great Lakes Regional Assessment Sponsored by the the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and coordinated by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, this Great Lakes project is one of 19 regional assessments studying the impacts of climate change.