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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Researchers found diverse habitat can draw bees, but that gathering makes it easier to spread viral infections among bees. But strategies, including the planting of lots of wildflowers, can reduce the spread of bee pathogens. -
Economists at the University of Michigan expect Michigan's population to grow by a half-million over three decades. -
The spending plan includes significant funding for Great Lakes projects and Michigan infrastructure. -
The Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against a paper manufacturer which operated a plant in Port Huron. It claims it caused PFAS contamination and should be held liable for cleanup costs. -
Congress has approved the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Reauthorization Act. -
The Recovering America's Wildlife Act would have meant nearly $1.5 billion a year for protecting at risk species. -
An environmental group wants the new legislature to fix some things about Michigan's beverage container deposit law. -
The International Joint Commission is asking the public for their observations regarding the water quality of the Great Lakes. -
For more than 120 years, volunteers have taken a day to count and identify birds for the Audubon Christmas Bird Count. -
A blue tiki drink that's smoky and has a cardamom note. You've probably never tasted anything like it before and it is tasty.
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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…
