Author of “How To Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World”: We Need to Rethink Our Relationship to Animals

Penguin/Random House When you think about the future -- whether that’s your own, your family’s or our planet’s -- how...

How Planting More Trees Could Help Detroit Become a Healthier, More Equitable City

American Forests/ KyleHohler / Shutterstock When it comes to Detroit and its trees, the city was once known for its...

“Mosquitoes Are Out and They Are Fierce”: Why There Are So Many and How to Protect Yourself

Mosquitoes are worse than ever in Michigan, experts say. Michigan residents are working hard to protect themselves from bites, but it is...

Feedom Freedom Growers and Taproot Sanctuary Growing Community Care Through Gardening

Rooted shares stories about land tending, community healing and regeneration happening right here on the ancestral land of the Indigenous Anishinaabe, the...

Whitmer Proposes Big Investment in Michigan Parks Amid Longstanding Challenges

Michigan’s parks could be getting a glow up. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced last week that she wants to put $150 million in...

Rep. Elissa Slotkin Discusses Microchip Shortage, Infrastructure and Flooding

Automakers are losing a lot of money this year because of a shortage of microchips. These silicon microchips are about the...

Detroit Continues Cleanup after June Floods as FEMA Tours Neighborhoods to Assess Damage

After more than 6 inches of rain drenched Detroit and the surrounding area last month, residents in affected communities are still...

Macomb County Public Works Commissioner Candice Miller Questions GLWA Accounts of June Floods

The Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) says it does not believe human error was a problem in its response to last...

Detroiters Still Sorting Through Aftermath of Flood

People all over metro Detroit are still recovering from last month's flooding, but residents on Detroit's east side have been devastated by the heightened impacts of every...

Great Lakes Water Authority Responds to Metro Detroit Flooding, Says Blame Is Not on Organization

Detroiters want to know what and who was responsible for the neglect in the city’s infrastructure that played a role in last...

Hear Brood X Cicadas at Their Peak in Michigan

Every year a group of annual cicadas come out in the summer and emit an electrical-sounding buzz. But there are...

Detroit Is Not Built to Handle Climate Change

When flooding rains filled freeways and drenched basements across Metro Detroit in 2014, it was considered a 100-year flooding event....