pollution

Microplastics are everywhere. But after accidentally combining materials in a lab, scientists at the University of Michigan are on the cusp of discovering a new method to capture and remove microplastics from water. Researching it takes time, money, and repeated set backs.

The Michigan Supreme Court sided with state regulators this week in a dispute with industrial livestock farms.

There's a scene in the 1967 film The Graduate where a well-meaning friend of the family pulls Dustin Hoffman's character aside at his graduation party,...

It's an especially precarious time for Lake Erie's future. That's according to Jeffrey Reutter , an aquatic biologist and limnologist from Ohio State...

There are a lot of former industrial sites in Michigan that need to be cleaned up. The pollution left behind in one town in the middle of Michigan is...

State and federal officials are celebrating the completion of a twenty-year river cleanup effort in southeast Michigan. The River Raisin was once one of...

We often hear about the economic costs of environmental regulation on the energy industry. But there’s a flip side to that equation — the price society...

Back in December, there was a toxic spill in Detroit. In my kitchen. It was a Sunday morning. My kids were watching a cartoon. I was reading the paper....

A research team has discovered high levels of flame retardants in bald eagles in Michigan. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, are in all kinds of...