Environment
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Google, U-M partner to battle Flint crisis
New smartphone app and digital tools will help manage, navigate Flint water crisis.
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From the edge of the Arctic
At a remote climate change research outpost, engineer Brie Van Dam, BS ’07, helps track the planet’s vital signs.
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Time to get serious?
As the Earth’s climate changes, experts explore provocative interventions and ask: Can we geoengineer our way out of a looming crisis?
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Stalking immortality
As late bloomers go, the American agave at U-M’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens was peerless. At age 80, the plant gained rockstar status, only to perish soon after. Or did it?
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Focus on Flint
As leaders seek solutions to the Flint water crisis, the U-M community rallies across campuses to share expertise, launch research, and support efforts to aid local residents.
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Medicinal magic
“Nature’s pharmacy” at Matthaei Botanical Gardens showcases healing power of plants in elaborate garden organized by systems of the body.
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Protecting the Great Lakes
Striped invaders, toxic blooms, and rising waters are just some of the targets in U-M’s sights, as experts seek to defend our state’s precious waters.
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Teach-in + 50
On the 50th anniversary of the original teach-in at U-M, experts and advocates convene with a goal to “end the war against the planet.”
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Probing links to autism
Researchers building database to study how environmental stressors may impact brain development.