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As the COVID-19 pandemic closed animal shelters to the public, Detroit-area pet rescue and adoption organizations had to come up with new ways to connect their dogs and cats to families.
Demand for mountain bikes has skyrocketed.
Urban areas are getting hotter. Trees can help.
A new Environmental Protection Agency mobile app will help communities track water quality at their beaches.
Early editions of electric hybrid buses in Michigan proved unreliable. But with the return of the wave of electrification in 2021, has anything changed?
Despite setbacks from the pandemic, a food waste reduction company has diverted over 50 million pounds of food from landfills.
Coastal wind is a strong, consistent power source and Michigan’s more than 3,000 miles of coast could provide double the electricity residents used from all sources in 2019.
Several thousand miles of hiking, multi-use, equestrian, motorized, fishing access and mountain biking trails across Ohio are mapped in a new app from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
Michigan is number eight in a national ranking by the State Farm insurance company of where drivers are most likely to collide with an animal.
Reinstatement of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Habitat Grant Program could provide significant funding for many habitat projects this year, the department said.