
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Baby boomers are part of a "silver tsunami" of retirements sweeping across the nation's drinking water and wastewater systems.
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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.
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The U.S. EPA announced four tribes in Michigan would receive grants to install renewable energy infrastructure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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University of Michigan economists say Michigan's economy will strengthen once the Federal Reserve begins to lower interest rates.
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Last year, the Trump administration announced it would withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, and repeal the Clean Power Plan, or CPP. That’s…
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80,945 against to 75 in favor.These numbers show the scope of the public opposition to a new proposal from Nestle.The company wants to be able to pump a…
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Early in February, Eastern Michigan University canceled classes due to a sloppy snowstorm. But it didn’t cancel a big event it had planned for a long time…
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The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is moving forward with proposed changes to the lead and copper rule. If approved, Michigan would hold the…
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Last month, the state of Michigan declared Flint’s drinking water quality "restored." To get to this point, it’s taken, among other things, more than…
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Cypress Creek Renewables has been lining up farmland in Michigan for more than a year now.The object? Leases for enough land to install several hundred…
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Low-income, rural areas are the most vulnerable to drinking water quality violations that could affect people’s health, according to a new nationwide…
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This month, hundreds of spear fishers went to Black Lake in northern Michigan. They competed to catch just six lake sturgeon before the fishing season…
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People who live in Oscoda are concerned about foam containing toxic chemicals known as per-and-polyfluoroalkyl substances – or PFAS – that keeps appearing…
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Insecticides widely used on farms, lawns and gardens — known as neonicotinoids — are showing up in rivers across the Great Lakes region.Michelle Hladik, a…