Michigan and several states have issued air quality advisories as hundreds of Canadian wildfires continue to burn, sending plumes of smoke across the U.S. and leaving particles in the air that can be unhealthy for people and the environment.
University of Michigan experts are available to discuss.
We aren’t just overstepping the heat threshold; we are creating Hell on Earth. But the otherwise waste heat of global warming accumulating in our oceans is golden in the eye of the perceptive beholder.
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Updated: 27 Apr 2021 02:43 AM BdST People walk on the Rajpath on a smoggy day in New Delhi, India, November 1, 2019. REUTERS
Cleaner skies over South Asia that resulted from pandemic lockdowns last year likely affected the timing of snowmelt in the Indus River basin of Pakistan and India, researchers reported on Monday. );
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The lockdowns cut emissions of soot and other pollutants, as people drove less and the generation of electricity, largely from coal, was reduced. That meant less soot was deposited on snow, where it absorbs sunlight, emits heat and causes faster melting.
Parents hope Ann Arbor can deliver on intent to offer 5 days of in-person school this fall
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
Posted Feb 26, 2021
Abbott Elementary student Lia Jewell, 8, learns remotely at Peace Neighborhood Center, 1111 N. Maple Rd. in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020.
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ANN ARBOR, MI - As an associate professor at the University of Michigan with some experience teaching in the hybrid format this year, Sara Soderstrom understands what public school teachers are going through in balancing remote and in-person learning.
Knowing the importance of the in-person experience, though, Soderstrom held off on sending her youngest son to an early kindergarten program this fall, deciding instead to wait a year to enroll him in kindergarten as progress toward teacher vaccinations and reducing community spread of COVID-19 continue.
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