
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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Federal, state, and local governments want to plant more trees to absorb carbon dioxide to curb global warming. Nurseries don't have the capacity to meet the goal.
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Conservation agencies are asking people to examine trees, looking for signs of the invasive Asian longhorned beetle.
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Federal money can be used to restore wetlands, buy property to use as a buffer, and invest in nature-based infrastructure.
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Voters can vote on issues or for candidates for municipalities and local taxing districts on August 8, 2023.
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Local, state, and federal agencies conduct exercises based on worst case scenarios of petroleum spills into the Great Lakes.
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The federal government wants to reduce the amount of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, that's leaking from wells and pipes at oil and natural gas wells.
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Autonomous research vessels are gathering data about fish in the Great Lakes.
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The Lansing Board of Water and Light plans to spend $750 million on solar, wind, and battery storage. When complete by 2027, it will add 650 megawatts of clean energy, amounting to 58% of total power generation.
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Michigan saw solar jobs increase by 3.3%, just under the national average of 3.5%. An industry group expects a quick expansion of solar in the next couple of years.
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The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy's report, "Greening America’s Smaller Legacy Cities," gives guidance on preparing for climate change in an environmentally just way.
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The way J. Ellen Marsden remembers it, when she first suggested calling a new Great Lakes invasive species the quagga mussel, her colleague laughed, so…
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Climate change is altering lakes so that some fish species could be lost. Ice coverage is declining over the decades.
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The stunning beauty of Lake Michigan’s crystal clear water draws comparisons to the French Riviera. But to Dustin Van Orman, it’s a hideous sight.Van…
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J.D. Hock’s heart sank in 2018, when the state of Michigan warned it was unsafe to eat deer harvested within a five-mile radius of Clark’s Marsh in Oscoda…
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Intrigued by warming winters, researchers from the University of Michigan set out in 1989 to formally measure changes in the geographical distribution of…
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It’s freezing outside and Larry Scheer is in neoprene chest waders kicking up sediment in Boyden Creek near Ann Arbor, Michigan.He’s using a fine mesh net…
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The downtown office for the Sault Sainte Marie Tribe of the Chippewa Indians Fisheries Management Program is a simple, small two-story brick building. But…
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If humans continue to release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at current rates, we should be prepared to say goodbye to ice-covered winters on the…
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Hope is waning for those who hoped to stick an ice shanty on Little Traverse Bay this winter. The same goes for nearby Torch and Elk lakes, two large…
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It’s the first month of a 20-year effort to replace every lead service line connecting a Michigan home to a public water supply. Already, Jeff Lampi is…