Nature’s Calendar
Is global warming making our springs earlier and longer, or is this year a fluke? Area scientists and nature lovers say it’s too soon to tell.
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Environment
Turkeys in Traffic
Ask most Michiganders about the hazards of driving in a state full of wildlife and you’re likely to hear about run-ins with deer. But on a recent Saturday afternoon, a different kind of traffic hazard asserted itself.
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Greenbelt and Bluebelt
In March, Michigan’s Agricultural Preservation Fund Board awarded $2 million to eight farmland preservation programs across the state to purchase development rights that protect land for agricultural use. Five of the eight are in Washtenaw County.
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Heat from the Ground
When it’s completed next year, the $10 million, 11,000-square-foot Edward and Rosalie Ginsberg...
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Magazine Seedlings
On Facebook’s Buy No Things Ann Arbor page, Stacie Cowie recently put out a request for old copies...
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Planting a Pocket Forest
At the end of February, the city’s Parks Advisory Commission heard an unusual pitch: The local...
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A Fire at Loch Alpine
At the start of this new year, a barking dog and a white wisp of smoke heralded a new era in...
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Filter First
“It was fantastic,” says AAPS parent Rebecca Meuninck. The former Ecology Center deputy director...
Read MoreQuestion Corner | Jan. 2024
Q. I have a question about the Gelman Plume cleanup. After contaminated groundwater is treated to reduce dioxane levels, it is discharged into a tributary of Honey Creek, which joins the Huron River upstream from Ann Arbor’s...
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A Hungry Locavore
For every dollar American consumers spent on produce, dairy, and meat products in 2022, the...
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Hydrogen Buses?
Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority CEO Matt Carpenter says transit agencies can do two things...
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Auto Labs Flourish
“It’s a facility that’s dedicated 100 percent to processing safety defects,” says Benjamin...
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Hemlocks in Peril
He’s speaking of the hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), an invasive insect that has devastated hemlock...
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Power Down
After a windstorm in July, we’d been without power for nearly 70 hours when my wife got a text...
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For the Birds
Photos by Bill VanderMolen The banner photograph of the Facebook Page “Michigan Bird Listing” is...
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Chasing Volts
Katherine lives in Dexter and always charges her electric Chevy Bolt EUV at home. It has an...
Read MoreQuestion Corner | Aug. 2023
Q. Are hazardous materials transported by rail through Ann Arbor? A. Railroads are required to provide notification of a hazardous shipment only when a train is carrying hazardous materials in either twenty consecutive cars or...
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Transit in Transition
At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority’s ridership...
Read MoreQuestion Corner | July 2023
Q. Where is the nearest old-growth forest? A. The Old-Growth Forest Network maintains a list of the country’s oldest protected forests, and Witherell Woods in Detroit’s Palmer Park is the closest. Located forty miles from Ann...
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