2020 has been a difficult time to be a kid. When schools and nearly all other nonessential activities in the U.S. shut down in the spring to slow the spread of COVID-19, many kids’ worlds shrunk to the four walls of their homes.

Since the Detroiters Do Science project began in May, citizen scientists across Metro Detroit have recorded nearly 2500 observations (and counting!) through the iNaturalist app as part of our Nature in Your Neighborhood project.

As national conversations about racism and equity continue, companies are looking inward and taking action. But are your diversity and inclusion (D&I) efforts at risk of fizzling out?

Since George Floyd's death and the protests that have followed, companies have responded in different ways. Some issued statements to the public and to their employees....But beyond such statements, what can organizations do to address these issues — which might include systemic racism in their own space?

A church garden in Detroit might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of biodiversity, but each individual plant, bird and insect that inhabits the space is doing its part.

Science should be able to speak for itself. But people with a vested interest in undermining science are working behind the scenes to obscure it.

Normally, New Balance’s factories are humming along, making running shoes and other athletic wear. But they ground to a halt, along with nearly everything else deemed nonessential, when the dangers of COVID-19 became clear.

A changing workforce requires a new approach to employee retention if organizations want to keep their top talent in a business climate facing new uncertainties.

More than half of employees leave a job because of a manager. How can your organization avoid that trap?

Building Cooperatively is a co-op in Detroit that focuses on historic restoration and investing in the community.

Adrienne Bennett has been in the plumbing industry for more than 40 years. In 1976, a man who was recruiting for a plumbing apprenticeship walked up to her "and said I looked like a woman who could get something done," she said.

In an average year, Michigan gets about 31.5 inches of rain. But 2019 wasn’t an average year — more than 41.5 inches came down and wreaked havoc across the state.

Since 2014, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department has shut off the water to 141,000 households whose bills were past due. Last year, more than 23,000 households reportedly had their water shut off.

The term “environmental justice” still may be unfamiliar to some people, but you don’t have to be familiar with it to understand what it means when you see it. With the Flint water crisis and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the people who were hit hardest were poor and black.

Abir Ali describes herself as a city builder. Her career has included architecture, philanthropy, design and real estate—with specialized positions across disciplines.

Talk of how automation and artificial intelligence would change the workforce once conjured images of robots taking our jobs. But so far, the robots have not replaced humans on the factory floor — or the cubicle row.

Automation and AI will change the nature of work, said Automation Alley CEO and Executive Director Tom Kelly. "You may not have a person in every truck driving on the highway, but you're still going to need all kinds of people in logistics," he said.

It may be frigid outside, but plenty of Metro Detroiters are still getting out on their local trails frequently. What they may not know is that some trails stretch all the way across the state.

In the past, a girl who wanted to wrestle or play ice hockey would have had to join a boys’ team. Now, more girls and women are getting their own teams, and interest is growing among girls and women in sports that once were almost exclusively for boys and men.