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Could riding older school buses hinder student performance?
Students who ride newer, cleaner-air buses to school have improved academic performance, according to a U-M study that linked school bus funding information with standardized test scores and found improvements in reading/language arts and math scores when the oldest buses were replaced with newer vehicles.
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Living on the edge
Ricky Rood tests the edges of climate change, highlighting new issues and asking new questions.
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Caribbean seagrasses provide services worth $255B annually, including carbon storage
Discussions of valuable but threatened ocean ecosystems often focus on coral reefs or coastal mangrove forests. Seagrass meadows get a lot less attention, even though they provide wide-ranging services to society and store lots of climate-warming carbon. A new University of Michigan-led study shows that seagrass ecosystems deserve to be at the forefront of the global conservation agenda.
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Eating for the environment
Caring about the planet can taste very good, says Victor Katch.
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And as a reasonable man…
Reasonable use is a term frequently used in energy policy. But what does it really mean?
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Fragmented mediocrity
Ricky Rood ponders the insidious and pervasive nature of fragmented mediocrity in the realm of climate science.
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Who wants to see the future, anyway?
Ricky Rood compares modeling the climate to peering through a telescope — and seeing the future.
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Ann Arbor campus joins Bee Campus USA movement
U-M’s Ann Arbor campus recently joined UM-Dearborn as a certified Bee Campus, reflecting the University’s commitment to pollinator conservation. U-M has long followed pollinator-friendly landscaping practices.
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Stars in our eyes
Astronomy consistently garners more public support than the earthbound sciences. Could it be those fancy telescopes?