The Environment Report
The Environment Report, hosted by Lester Graham, explores the relationship between the natural world and the everyday lives of people in Michigan.
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Chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurological ailment, kills deer. It's been slowly spreading through Michigan. Washtenaw County is the 15th county where the disease has been detected in deer. -
The University of Michigan Research Seminar In Quantitative Economics' economic outlook for 2025-2026 projects slower job growth and new inflationary pressures due to tariffs. -
More than a decade after the Flint Water Crisis, another lawsuit has been settled. This one with the engineering company Veolia North American (VNA). -
$21 billion in federal grants, loans, and loan guarantees for Michigan projects are being rescinded or held back for clean energy efforts by the Trump administration. -
The $1.1 billion invasive carp barrier needs land that Illinois owns. Governor Pritzker is delaying the land transfer until President Trump assures funding for the project. -
Environmental justice experts from the Biden administration discussed the Trump reversals of U.S. policies toward climate change, renewable energy, and environmental justice. -
The University of Michigan's Campus Plan 2050 includes a potential elevated train (automated transit system) connecting three of the Ann Arbor campuses. One potential route cuts through Nichols Arboretum. -
It's "common knowledge" that Great Lakes recreational fishing is a $7 billion industry. But that comes from a report released nearly two decades ago. A new report has a substantially lower number. -
Research out of Bowling Green State University studies bees in 10 cities in the U.S. It looks at how well different bee species tolerate heat and dehydration. -
Tribes and environmental groups are challenging the Michigan Public Service Commission's decision to grant a permit to tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac for Line 5.
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One evening in the late 1800s, a lighthouse keeper named John Herman was drinking, as he usually did, when he decided to play a prank on his assistant.… -
On a calm morning in late summer 2019, Jim Bailey was kayaking on Lake Superior near Thunder Bay, Ontario, when he found himself paddling through thick… -
When you visit one of the Great Lakes, whether it’s a sandy beach or a rocky coastline, it’s hard to imagine how something so big could be affected so profoundly by alien invasive species, or pollution, or climate change. -
Brian Owens is with Great Lakes Now.Natural populations of oil-degrading bacteria could help to clean up freshwater rivers and lakes after spills from… -
It’s just before 6 p.m. on a breezy Wednesday evening in Little Village, a neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side. Department of Water Management staffers… -
In the early 1970s, Chicago embarked on one of the region’s most ambitious and expensive infrastructure projects to date: the Tunnel and Reservoir Project… -
What does Michigan’s future look like if we adequately prepare the state’s water resources for climate change? Goodbye to septics and shorehugging homes.… -
Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) are forecasting the… -
Water ran from a fire hydrant, down the street and into a recently redesigned street median in Detroit last week.It was both unassuming and a… -
Some coal fired power plants are being closed. Still, most of Michigan’s utilities heavily rely on coal.“In 2019, coal still fueled the largest share of…
