
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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Smaller and less complex nuclear power plants are being considered at sites across the country.
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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources required hunters to report kills rather than relying on a mailed survey to a sampling of hunters.
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Outdated federal water laws and chemicals that were approved for industry without assessing for risk leave Ann Arbor and other communities struggling to ward off water contaminants before they foul drinking water supplies.
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Washtenaw County residents are concerned about a proposed rock, sand, and gravel mine.
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A new report suggests Michigan and Ohio will fail to reduce nutrient runoff by 40% as agreed upon.
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Renewable energy such as solar and wind are well known, but without efficient systems such as geothermal, energy is wasted.
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Years-long droughts in the West have those states eyeing the Midwest for water.
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Heavy industrial activity has been operating along parts of the Detroit and Rouge rivers for decades. The legacy it's left is up to 5.1 million cubic meters of contaminated sediment.
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Consumers Energy is submitting a draft habitat conservation plan and draft environmental assessment about minimizing deaths and supporting habitats of endangered bats.
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The next phase of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative will include working with people, public health, and economic impacts.
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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…