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 next phase of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative will include working with people, public health, and economic impacts. -
Electric vehicles pay a surcharge on registration fees. Nearly everyone believes there are fairer ways to assess a fee to help pay for roads. Choosing one is the difficult part. -
The Great Lakes Commission has a plan to guide the states and provinces surrounding the Great Lakes toward protecting their communities from the climate-change damage. -
Making a classic cocktail with a "warm & savory" gin from Green Door Distilling in Kalamazoo. -
Money from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is dedicated to cleaning up so-called "orphan wells" in Michigan. -
NOAA, USDOT, and other agencies are launching a pilot program to develop methods for integrating equity into planning decisions regarding urban flooding. -
Democratic Representative Debbie Dingell has introduced the Recovering America's Wildlife Act every session since she was elected eight years ago. It failed to pass again. She plans to reintroduce it next session. -
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is asking you to report any wild turkeys you see in the month of January. -
Recycling electronic waste in Michigan is not simple. Here's how you do it. -
The Flood Level Observation, Operations, and Decision Support Act (FLOODS) was signed into law by President Biden. Michigan U.S. Senator Gary Peters introduced the bill.
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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… -
Dry months of the year have been getting hotter in large parts of the U.S.Felicia Chiang is the lead author of a new study on droughts and climate change,… -
If you’re out on a lake this summer and you stumble on a blob that looks like an alien life form, it could actually be a good thing.Jo Latimore got an… -
Asbestos is known to cause cancer. It’s banned for some uses in the U.S., but it’s not entirely banned.The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a… -
It’s breeding season for monarch butterflies, and government officials from the U.S., Canada and Mexico want your help collecting data on them.The second… -
There's a scene in the 1967 film The Graduate where a well-meaning friend of the family pulls Dustin Hoffman's character aside at his graduation party,… -
The state Legislature is considering bills that would speed up wetland restoration in Michigan.“Wetlands are nature’s answer to a lot of our societal woes… -
More than 16,000 ticks have arrived in Nate Nieto’s mailbox.He’s an associate professor of microbiology at Northern Arizona University, and he launched a… -
Wind energy became popular because it can reduce the need for polluting coal and gas generated electricity. But, things are shifting now.“The primary… -
New tariffs are putting some Michigan newspapers and printers at risk of going out of business.There’s more than a little irony in the fact that a state…
