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University of Michigan environmental scientist Joel D. Blum has been awarded the 2013 Clair C. Patterson Award from the Geochemical Society for the development and application of innovative techniques that have enhanced the...
"Meaningful and measurable" is how President Mary Sue Coleman described U-M's commitments and approach to sustainability.
The comments Tuesday were part of "Exploring Sustainability on Planet Blue," a monthly discussion...
A smart filter with a shape-shifting surface can separate oil and water using gravity alone, an advancement that could be useful in cleaning up environmental oil spills, among other applications, say its University of...
Sarah Mills is a doctoral student in the University of Michigan's urban and regional planning program. She is the winner of the first Robert and Judy Marans/Kan and Lillian Chen Fellowship in Sustainability and Survey...
Sunmim Kim, a doctoral candidate in the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, is blogging while at the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development 2012 in Rio de Janeiro June 20-22, 2012. Click here for the...
Twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, 17 prominent ecologists are calling for renewed international efforts to curb the loss of biological diversity, which is compromising nature's ability to provide goods...
Since Darwin, assembling an evolutionary tree that shows the relationships between all known species of life has been one of the grandest and most daunting challenges facing biologists.
Despite 150 years of effort, there'...
Christoph Nolte is the winner of the 2012 Marshall Weinberg Population, Development, and Climate Change Fellowship, administered jointly by the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Population Studies Center...
More than 80 environmental, sustainability, and academic Great Lakes leaders—including two from the University of Michigan—gathered at the White House Great Lakes Summit on February 29, 2012 to participate in a dialogue...
University of Michigan ecology graduate student Jasmine Crumsey joined nearly 30 other scientists from across the country in Washington, D.C., on February 1, 2012 to brief congressional staff members about climate change...