Detroit PBS Great Lakes Now

As the Six Nations of the Grand River face water scarcity due to corporate extraction and limited land ownership, a new study shows how climate change will compound the issue.

Great Lakes Echo

The Six Nations of the Grand River face ongoing water insecurity from pollution, climate change and corporate extraction. Many years of Indigenous water advocacy have led to the development of a new Haudenosaunee Environmental Research Institute as the next step to overcome these challenges.

Great Lakes Echo

Climate change is creating new challenges for Great Lakes coastal communities. To tackle these hazards, the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority launched the Lake Ontario Coastal Resilience Pilot Project last summer. Over the next four years, the project aims to engage communities in developing a coastal resilience plan.

Knight Center for Environmental Journalism

Experts are looking beyond climate resiliency to build adaptive capacity, a process for navigating changes to cultural lifeways that promotes living well – not just bouncing back.

Knight Center for Environmental Journalism

At the Arizona Snowbowl Ski Resort, treated wastewater is used to create artificial snow that blankets the San Francisco Peaks – a sacred mountain to over a dozen Indigenous tribes. These tribes are banding together to protect their ancestral lands.

Spartan Newsroom

Inadequate access to nutritious food is an obstacle for children to achieve academic success. The Weekend Survival Kits Backpack program aims to alleviate that strain in Michigan.

Spartan Newsroom

While free school meals in Michigan currently meet nutrition requirements, experts look internationally to identify possible new improvements.

Spartan Newsroom

The Allen Neighborhood Center is working to revitalize the Lansing Eastside neighborhood’s historical lack of access to diverse, nutritious foods by connecting local vendors to the community.

Spartan Newsroom

In the face of a rapidly declining planet, some environmental students at Michigan State University feel more united now than ever.

The rapidly declining state of the environment and increasing social inequalities of today have opened the doors for a more holistic understanding of how these issues intertwine.

A new Michigan law aims to increase the state’s recycling rate from 21% in 2023 to 45% after 2029.

Low-income housing students stay home from class and work to clean sewer water coming from their basement drains. This early flooding event in January is becoming part of a larger climate trend.

A 2011 report by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce revealed that “leading companies were using fracking fluids that contained 750 compounds, of which more than 650 were known human carcinogens or air pollutants” (Layzer 468).

Compared to the damage to food and water supplies, the health of its people, and the wellbeing of the culture, Africa is at a serious disjuncture with its role in climate change and the impacts it suffers.

“The richest fifth consumes 58 percent of energy generated globally; the poorest fifth less than 4 percent” (Leonard 178).

Leopold’s “Land Ethic” introduces the idea of nature’s intrinsic value over its economic usefulness.