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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Chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurological ailment, kills deer. It's been slowly spreading through Michigan. Washtenaw County is the 15th county where the disease has been detected in deer. -
The University of Michigan Research Seminar In Quantitative Economics' economic outlook for 2025-2026 projects slower job growth and new inflationary pressures due to tariffs. -
More than a decade after the Flint Water Crisis, another lawsuit has been settled. This one with the engineering company Veolia North American (VNA). -
$21 billion in federal grants, loans, and loan guarantees for Michigan projects are being rescinded or held back for clean energy efforts by the Trump administration. -
The $1.1 billion invasive carp barrier needs land that Illinois owns. Governor Pritzker is delaying the land transfer until President Trump assures funding for the project. -
Environmental justice experts from the Biden administration discussed the Trump reversals of U.S. policies toward climate change, renewable energy, and environmental justice. -
The University of Michigan's Campus Plan 2050 includes a potential elevated train (automated transit system) connecting three of the Ann Arbor campuses. One potential route cuts through Nichols Arboretum. -
It's "common knowledge" that Great Lakes recreational fishing is a $7 billion industry. But that comes from a report released nearly two decades ago. A new report has a substantially lower number. -
Research out of Bowling Green State University studies bees in 10 cities in the U.S. It looks at how well different bee species tolerate heat and dehydration. -
Tribes and environmental groups are challenging the Michigan Public Service Commission's decision to grant a permit to tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac for Line 5.
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As Canadian officials lobbied a Michigan Senate committee in March to keep the Line 5 pipeline open, Sen. Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids) grew frustrated… -
The floodwaters have receded from Jefferson Chalmers for now, but evidence of the neighborhood’s recent crisis is hard to miss:Dried algae on the… -
Climate change in the Great Lakes region means more intense storms. Already some towns are finding they’re flooding where they never have before. One city… -
Midland and other cities were hit hard by a flood caused by heavy rains and the failure of a weak dam.More than 2,500 homes were damaged. There was an… -
Birds are beginning to migrate north. The Great Lakes flyway means a large number of those birds will be flying over Michigan. It also means at night… -
Michigan's Indigenous communities hold long-standing legal right to protect lands and waters.On any given day, Jacques LeBlanc Jr. spends as many as 14… -
Deep below the cold, dark surface of Lake Superior, sensors strung like pearls along a vertical steel cable sway with the currents. Recording the lake’s… -
As climate change complicates Lake Erie's algae problem, scientists say farmer must do far more to reduce phosphorus runoff. But will enough farmers… -
In Michigan, with public health departments fully occupied with COVID-19, septic systems have been pushed back as a priority.But even before COVID-19, it… -
Since the late 1980s, four of the five Great Lakes have played host to an increasing number of invasive mussels. First came zebra mussels, followed…
