
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.
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Michigan is removing some of its abandoned and obsolete dams. The benefits include cleaning up pollution and restoring nature.
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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.
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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.
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AmeriCorps has created a Forest Corps as part of a larger effort to combat the effects of climate change.
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Michigan gets a $129 million US EPA grant to assist local governments and tribes in siting, zoning, and permitting utility-scale renewable energy projects.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Because of the Flint water crisis, several Michigan cities are making long term plans to replace old lead water pipes that connect homes to the water…
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One of the things Flint’s water operators got in trouble for was falsifying records; for saying the city was testing homes at the highest risk of having…
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There are several federal agencies in charge of trying to control Asian carp, and they just came out with their latest report to Congress on how those…
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The reliability of our power supply is vulnerable to climate change. But the grid can be made more adaptable.Those are the conclusions of a new study in…
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For generations, Native Americans in the northern Great Lakes have harvested wild rice. It's an important food source. For some it's a way to make a…
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Lakes Superior and Erie have too many sea lampreys.The invasive fish latch onto big fish like lake trout and salmon and drink their blood and body fluids.…
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A group in northern Michigan has been working for more than a decade to connect a bike trail between Suttons Bay and Harbor Springs.But now, one…
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If you hit the grocery stores in the Toledo area a couple weeks ago, hoping to pick up some bottled water, you were out of luck.Several stores completely…
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People are gathering in Buffalo this week for the annual Great Lakes restoration conference.At the top of their list is making sure Congress fully funds…
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Canada geese have been spending their winters farther north.Scientists have figured out geese are drawn to cities for safety more so than for food.Michael…