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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The Republican-led House of Representatives is proposing to cut funds for the EPA, water distribution system repairs, and pollution cleanup. -
The Michigan park system had an estimated $300 million worth of deferred maintenance. ARPA money is providing $250 million worth of improvements. -
NOAA satellite images and a research vessel sampling Lake Erie water both found evidence of harmful algal blooms on July 5, a much earlier date than typical. -
Some foam on the river is caused by PFAS, a class of chemicals that can cause health effects after prolonged exposure. -
An oily sheen is spread a quarter mile along the Flint River at Whaley Park. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has staff on site. -
NOAA scientists and other researcher project that cyanobacterial blooms will not be a widespread this summer in the western basin of Lake Erie. -
Information about air quality is being updated via several government sites. Here's where you can go for answers and how the sites work. -
Federal protections for many wetlands have been removed. Some states have laws to protect those wetlands, but some are stronger than others. -
The USDA provides funding to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources which uses some of that money to kill beavers. The DNR believes beavers are destructive to trout streams. -
A federal judge ordered a segment of Line 5 to be moved within three years. Enbridge said it will appeal.
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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… -
Lake whitefish are the most important commercial fish species in Michigan.But in the last decade, state biologists say fishers are harvesting about a… -
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…
