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Shifting farm economy means changes for rural communities
By Lillian Williams
he shrinking number of farms in Michigan – down by about 1,300 between 2023 and 2024 – and the trend of existing farms to expand to survive is changing the culture of rural communities.
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Plastic is flowing into the Great Lakes—and into us
Peer-reviewed studies have detected microplastics in Lake Michigan and the other Great Lakes. The findings raise urgent questions about what everyday plastic use is sending into the lake and the […]
Apollo Go Reaches 20 Million Trips, 190 Million Fully Driverless Kilometers
We typically report on Waymo and other US-based robotaxi companies, but one of the biggest robotaxi services in the world is Baidu’s Apollo Go. It first launched fully driverless robotaxis in China on July 20, 2022, and was the first company to launch them there. Now we have news that, … [continued]
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Range Anxiety Anxiety vs. Actual Electric Car Convenience
Wow, time flies. An old article that I loved when we originally published it recently came to mind, and I quickly realized it was much more relevant today than it was back in November of 2014 when it was published. It also blows my mind that the article is more … [continued]
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Sierra Club Releases First Trove of Emails, Texts, and Calendars from Trump’s Department of the Interior
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the Sierra Club released the first batch of communications and calendars received from the Department of the Interior in the wake of the organization’s lawsuit following the agency’s failure to respond to public records requests for the documents. The Sierra Club sought calendar items and text and email records between … [continued]
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