environment

  1. March 25, 2024

    Earth Month puts focus on U-M sustainability efforts

    U-M is marking late March and all of April with a series of events focused on sustainability and climate action, continuing a tradition that began with the first “Teach-In on the Environment” in 1970.

  2. September 13, 2023

    Climate action opportunities will abound at Earthfest

    Earthfest, an annual event celebrating environmental initiatives across the university, takes place on the Diag from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 21.

  3. August 14, 2023

    Educator is helping create a sustainable future

    UM-Dearborn’s interpretive naturalist Dorothy McLeer pulls out all the creative stops to help people retain information while taking them on guided tours of the trails.

  4. February 23, 2022

    Wege speaker: Everyone has a role in saving the planet

    For the environmental movement to be effective, it must be something that everyone participates in, marine biologist and climate policy expert Ayana Elizabeth Johnson says.

  5. February 22, 2021

    Release of nutrients worsens Lake Erie’s annual ‘dead zone’

    Robotic laboratories on the bottom of Lake Erie have revealed that the muddy sediments there release nearly as much phosphorus into the surrounding waters as enters the lake’s central basin each year from rivers and tributaries.

  6. March 12, 2020

    Original Earth Day organizers come together 50 years later

    Six former members of the U-M student organization that established the original Teach-In on the Environment in 1970 reconvened 50 years later for a panel discussion.

  7. February 14, 2020

    Fighting climate change at the sink: A guide to greener dishwashing

    A new U-M study on washing dishes shows that the manual two-basin method is associated with fewer greenhouse gas emissions than machine dishwashing and the “running tap” method.

  8. February 10, 2020

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from across the University of Michigan.

  9. June 13, 2017

    U-M first Division 1 campus to receive environmental certification

    A joint effort involving eight Ann Arbor campus departments has earned U-M the state’s first Division 1 campuswide certification for reducing pesticides and fertilizer.