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 H2Ohio Wetland Monitoring Program is hoping to get people to take photos for a time-lapse of developing wetlands, and then get more involved as citizen scientists. -
A new study in the journal Global Change Biology studied a pessimistic policy outlook and an optimistic policy outlook to project how climate change would affect birds in the neotropics, stretching from central Mexico to the southern tip of South America. -
Game managers say there are too many deer in parts of the state’s Lower Peninsula. The Michigan Natural Resources Commission has added days to the deer hunting season. -
The state is trading mineral rights to more than 8,000 acres in the Porcupine Mountains for mineral rights on land scattered across six Upper Peninsula counties. -
A study in the journal Science outlines the many consequences of the loss of ice on lakes because of climate change. Fishing, cultural activities, transportation, water quality, and greenhouse gas releases are all consequences of the loss of lake ice coverage. -
Michigan faces a high risk of fires. Abnormally dry conditions, and in some places actual drought, have left yards and fields dry. Winds this weekend increase the chance of wildfires. -
Baby boomers are part of a "silver tsunami" of retirements sweeping across the nation's drinking water and wastewater systems. -
Enbridge wants to build a new 41-mile section of pipeline to take Line 5 around the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa reservation. Opponents want Line 5 shut down. -
The U.S. EPA announced four tribes in Michigan would receive grants to install renewable energy infrastructure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. -
University of Michigan economists say Michigan's economy will strengthen once the Federal Reserve begins to lower interest rates.
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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…
