
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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Wrapping paper and cardboard boxes can be recycled with little effort. Other holiday-related trash cannot.
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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.
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Economists at the University of Michigan expect Michigan's population to grow by a half-million over three decades.
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The spending plan includes significant funding for Great Lakes projects and Michigan infrastructure.
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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.
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Congress has approved the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Reauthorization Act.
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The Recovering America's Wildlife Act would have meant nearly $1.5 billion a year for protecting at risk species.
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An environmental group wants the new legislature to fix some things about Michigan's beverage container deposit law.
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The International Joint Commission is asking the public for their observations regarding the water quality of the Great Lakes.
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For more than 120 years, volunteers have taken a day to count and identify birds for the Audubon Christmas Bird Count.
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The last major outbreak of avian botulism on Lake Michigan was in 2016, when hundreds of dead birds washed up on shore. The bacterial disease has affected…
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The U.S. and Canada are working to restore populations of a prehistoric fish in the Great Lakes that was nearly wiped out. We went out with a crew of…
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Each year hundreds of millions of birds die in the U.S. after colliding with windows. Skyscrapers are not the chief cause, but mostly mid-rise buildings.…
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In 2016, Michigan got an important new tool in the growing effort to limit global heating.The state's new energy law requires regulated utilities, for the…
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You see it all the time in city streams and rivers: all kinds of trash, much of it plastic, bobbing along the edge of the water. You know it’s not right.…
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The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy indicates there are 1.4 million homes in Michigan that are not hooked up to a sewer…
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Some cities in Michigan are putting together climate change action plans. Part of that is making everything more energy efficient in order to reduce the…
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Margaret Lewis is a retired court reporter who lives in a big, older home in Highland Park -- the kind you say has "good bones," because it needs some…
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More than four million people crossed the Straits of Mackinac last year. But they are also one of the busiest migration spots for raptors, or birds of…
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China is not taking as much U.S. recycled material as it has in the past. The Chinese economy is slowing down and it doesn’t need to import as much paper…