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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Researching 60 years of winters in the Great Lakes finds trends toward warmer, wetter storms and more weather variability. -
Michigan is removing some of its abandoned and obsolete dams. The benefits include cleaning up pollution and restoring nature. -
It's been ten years since Toledo issued a 'don not drink' order for its water system for three days due to cyanobacterial blooms near its water intake in Lake Erie. The blooms are not any worse, but they are not any less. -
Dow is getting $120 million and tax exemptions as part of a package from the state of Michigan that Governor Gretchen Whitmer says will protect 5,000 jobs. -
AmeriCorps has created a Forest Corps as part of a larger effort to combat the effects of climate change. -
Michigan gets a $129 million US EPA grant to assist local governments and tribes in siting, zoning, and permitting utility-scale renewable energy projects. -
Hotter days make heat exhaustion a greater hazard for kids. Hotter days also can mean more ozone pollution and that leads to lung impairments. Unusual weather events, particularly storms that cause flooding, add stress to children's lives. -
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services trumpets improvements noted in a follow-up audit from the Office of the Auditor General, but said the OAG's report was a disservice to the public. -
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is using a couple of roving robots on tracks to sift through the sand on beaches, cleaning up debris. -
A University of Michigan study looked at data from more than 25,000 participants to see if long term exposure to air pollution had effects on elderly people's health. It found even those without chronic diseases from air pollution needed assistance from family or professionals for everyday living.
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The climate solutions caucus in the U.S. House is a group of more than 60 Democrats and Republicans who want to address climate change. Representative… -
Piping plovers are little white and gray shorebirds. You might’ve seen them running around on the beach.Sarah Saunders is a post-doctoral researcher at… -
Health experts say we can catch the flu if someone coughs near us. But now there’s evidence we can spread the influenza virus into the air just by… -
Scientists have found organic matter from toxic blooms in the Great Lakes can get airborne.Andrew Ault is an assistant professor at the University of… -
At least 14 communities in Michigan have water contaminated with a family of chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.One of those… -
A new study in the journal Science finds there are genetic differences in yellow warblers that live in different parts of the U.S. and Canada, and some of… -
More than three centuries of thriving marine commerce and those notorious storms in the Great Lakes have given Michigan a wealth of historic shipwrecks.… -
There’s too much salt getting into our rivers and streams.A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds over the past 50 years,… -
Scientists might have found a new way to combat white-nose syndrome, a disease caused by a fungus killing millions of bats in the U.S. and Canada.Jon… -
Streams can tell us a lot about the health of an ecosystem. But some researchers say we can do a better job of paying attention to those streams.Jay…
