1. 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.

  2. Living on the edge

    Ricky Rood tests the edges of climate change, highlighting new issues and asking new questions.

  3. 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.

  4. Eating for the environment

    Caring about the planet can taste very good, says Victor Katch.

  5. And as a reasonable man…

    Reasonable use is a term frequently used in energy policy. But what does it really mean?

  6. Fragmented mediocrity

    Ricky Rood ponders the insidious and pervasive nature of fragmented mediocrity in the realm of climate science.

  7. Who wants to see the future, anyway?

    Ricky Rood compares modeling the climate to peering through a telescope — and seeing the future.

  8. 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.

  9. Stars in our eyes

    Astronomy consistently garners more public support than the earthbound sciences. Could it be those fancy telescopes?