environment

How has flooding impacted Belle Isle’s ‘imperiled’ Wet-Mesic Flatwoods forest?

Drone photographs show masses of dead canopy trees on Belle Isle, especially where Lake Okonoka has inundated the island’s Wet-Mesic…

4 years ago

Life in the cracks:

The A.W.E. Society and Planet Detroit’s Detroiters Do Science Project are pleased to announce an open call for photos, artwork,…

4 years ago

This week in Sidewalk Botany:

Sidewalk Botany is a weekly series of explorations of our photosynthesizing neighbors written by Planet Detroit’s Artist-in-Residence, Bridget Quinn of…

4 years ago

A peek inside ‘Yeah, What Lester Said’ environmental art exhibit

This weekend is the last opportunity to check out Yeah, What Lester Said , a free, online exhibition this summer…

4 years ago

OPINION: Southwest Detroit and Downriver should form an environmental justice coalition

Air pollution respects no boundaries and impacts those who live adjacent to or downwind of the emitting sources. Since the…

4 years ago

Metro Detroit’s environmental organizations are largely white. Some are working to change that.

People of color have intimate relationships with the natural world, and environmental injustice disproportionately harms them. So why are environmental…

4 years ago

Nature cropping up in Midland lakes where dams failed

Nature is returning to craters left from lakes drained by two dams that failed in May during torrential rain in…

4 years ago

Bridget Quinn joins Planet Detroit as an Artist in Residence

Bridget Quinn is an artist, activist, and experimental nature therapy guide who invites people to reconnect with nearby nature using…

4 years ago

Introducing ‘Sidewalk Botany’ with the A.W.E. Society

Each week Planet Detroit’s new artist in Residence, Bridget Quinn, of the A.W.E. Society will highlight two new plants often…

4 years ago

A new plan to reduce phosphorus pollution in Lake Erie pits farmers against Detroiters

State's plan prioritizes upgrades to Detroit's wastewater treatment plant over agricultural runoff.

4 years ago