Rebecca Williams
Senior Editor, NewsRebecca Williams is senior editor in the newsroom, where she edits stories and helps guide news coverage.
She's been with Michigan Public for more than 20 years. She's been an editor, reporter and producer, host of the Environment Report, and an on-air host.
Rebecca has a degree in resource ecology and management from the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources & Environment, where she had close encounters with escaped boars and poison sumac.
She’s won several national awards for her work, including a national Edward R. Murrow award for a documentary, Coal: Dirty Past, Hazy Future that she reported with Mark Brush and Lester Graham, and she shared in the prestigious duPont-Columbia and Scripps Howard awards for team coverage of the Flint water crisis.
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The monarch butterflies that are emerging right now in Michigan have a long trip ahead of them.They’ll fly several thousand miles to the oyamel fir… -
The creatures that live with us in cities – things like spiders, owls, lizards and mice – are evolving over time.A new set of studies in a special issue… -
Researchers have found that some of the most common reptiles and amphibians that people own as pets are also the most likely to be released into the… -
Public health experts want us to pay more attention to the effects of climate change on kids.Madeleine Thomson is a senior research scientist at the… -
Many Americans are ok with genetic engineering of animals if it benefits human health. But a lot of people oppose other uses of the technology. Those are… -
We have a rattlesnake in Michigan called the eastern massasauga. It’s listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.One of the threats… -
The global market for recycling has changed dramatically over the last year, and it’s already trickling down to what happens at the curb.China used to… -
Water use in the U.S. has dropped to its lowest level in about 45 years.But the U.S. Geological Survey found 12 states accounted for more than 50% of the… -
Scientists are creating an experimental warning system for meteotsunamis in the Great Lakes.Meteotsunamis are potentially dangerous waves that are driven… -
Methane is one of the big three greenhouse gasses, next to carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide.Peter Groffman is a professor at the City University of New…
