environment

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. February 10, 2020

   Campus briefs

   Short news items from across the University of Michigan.

5. 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.