Category: Climate change
Stateside: Tuesday, June 16, 2026
A conversation about why Michigan swamplands are disappearing and what that means for our state’s environment. Also, a Detroit poet shared her summer memories on Boblo Island.
Fossil Fuels Are 40% Of Freight Shipping Tonnage, But Half Its Fuel Use
Maritime fuel debates usually start with the wrong object. They look at today’s bunker fuel demand, line up replacement molecules, and ask whether ammonia, methanol, hydrogen, LNG, biofuels, or synthetic fuels can scale far enough to replace it. That sounds like a practical question, but it skips the larger one: … [continued]
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‘A gold mine’: Midland uses AI to help manage urban forest
They’re the first and only city in the state of Michigan to incorporate artificial intelligence into maintaining its urban forest, which consists of over 40,000 trees.
Michigan officials to release tiny mile-a-minute weevils in fight against invasive weed
Officials are planning to release mile-a-minute weevils in four sites in Calhoun County in mid June, in an attempt to target an invasive vine species.
China’s First Build Is Ending, And The World Won’t Repeat It
One of the easiest ways to get long-range energy and materials demand wrong is to treat first-build infrastructure demand as a permanent condition. Countries build their first stock of housing, highways, ports, rail, power systems, water systems, industrial parks, and concrete-and-steel cities once. After that, the demand structure changes. The … [continued]
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