Andrea Paine 01/22/2024 News to Us News to Us Our first News to Us of 2024 looks back on the financial impacts of natural disasters in 2023 and even… Read More »
Daniel Brown 12/05/2023 Climate change Fifth National Climate Assessment Paints Clear Picture of the Threats from Climate Change Drastic cuts to planet-warming emissions and preparations for some unavoidable change will benefit people now, not just future generations. The… Read More »
Andrea Paine 11/15/2023 News to Us News to Us The November edition of News to Us features updates on state and local environmental news, including a package of state… Read More »
Andrea Paine 10/27/2022 News to Us News to Us Our October News to Us features articles on creatures of the Huron River: mussels and jellyfish! Links to stories on… Read More »
Guest Blogger 09/20/2022 Dams Removing Ypsilanti’s Peninsular Paper Dam Prepares for the Future By guest blogger Beth Gibbons The thing about once in a lifetime opportunities is that they only come along once…. Read More »
Guest Blogger 04/27/2022 Dams Birds and Dams -by Juliet Berger, Ornithologist, NAP Across Michigan and throughout the country, old, obsolete dams are being removed from rivers with… Read More »
Guest Blogger 03/16/2022 Restoration Removing Dams Helps Fish Many dams in the U.S. have been an important part of infrastructure, serving to help with flood control and water… Read More »
Daniel Brown 11/09/2021 PFAS PFAS and Dams on the Huron River The State of Michigan has released advisories to avoid exposure to river foam, which tends to form near dams. If… Read More »
Guest Blogger 10/05/2021 Dams Hydroelectric Dams, Methane, and the Huron River Dams: Not as green as you might think! Preliminary results from a recent EMU study indicate that dams on the… Read More »
Rebecca Esselman 10/06/2020 Climate change Stream of Consciousness, Fall 2020 Avoiding conflict with a river Communities need to be building smarter. Research released this summer found that nationwide, 14.8 million… Read More »
Daniel Brown 05/20/2020 Dams Huron River Safety Updates After the Tittabawassee River Dam Failures The flooding in Midland following the failure of two dams on the Tittabawassee River is devastating. All of us at… Read More »
Laura Rubin 11/22/2017 Education Top ten things I am thankful for . . . As we head in to Thanksgiving I am reflecting on the many things that I am grateful for. I am… Read More »