Detroit tops the 2025 Asthma Capitals report, highlighting the city’s struggle with high asthma rates, ER visits, and asthma-related deaths, underscoring the urgent need for systemic change.
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Michigan fall colors 2025: Peak times and best spots to see them
As summer fades, Michigan’s trees shift from green to vibrant shades of red, orange, yellow and brown. Each fall, the state offers some of the best places to enjoy colorful, scenic views.
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Detroit River nonprofit targets wetlands loss with island habitat restoration
The Detroit River lost “probably 95%” of its coastal wetlands, “particularly on the Detroit side,” says riverkeeper Bob Burns.
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‘Actions speak louder than words’: Detroiters weigh in on Belle Isle’s future following $144M investment
A decade after the state takeover and $144 million in improvements, Detroiters are weighing what’s been gained, and what’s been lost, on the city’s river island.
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Transfer prices and your bill: What Michigan’s clean energy law means for you
The formula utilities use to compare renewables to fossil fuels is coming under fire, and the changes could shift dollars toward or away from ratepayers.
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Keep Growing Detroit fundraises to buy Eastern Market property, aims for ‘food sovereign city’
Keep Growing Detroit nears $40,000 fundraising goal for purchase of neighboring Eastern Market property.
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Q&A: Mary-Jacqueline Muli, the Climate Justice Nurse, on how climate change manifests at the patient’s bedside
The floods in Detroit in 2021 are when Mary-Jacqueline Muli “really got activated,” she says. The cardiac ICU nurse is the founder of the Climate Justice Nurse.
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Detroit’s composting pilot is about to begin. Sign up now
The first 200 residents to enroll in the pilot will receive a free five-gallon composting bucket to participate in the program, which kicks off Aug. 21.
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Smoky summers are Michigan’s new norm, experts say
Climate change is causing longer and more severe wildfire seasons in the western US and Canada, which means Michigan will continue to be vulnerable whenever summer winds blow in an unfortunate direction.
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Trump admin cancels $156M Michigan solar program as coal plant decision looms
Michigan has already committed nearly $14 million of the federal funds to support projects from Escanaba to Detroit. State officials left the door open to a potential lawsuit.