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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The State of Michigan's economic development agency hands out $87.5 million for business and industry projects. -
New research could synthesize the biological antifreeze chemicals that keep some frogs, insects, and fish from freezing in extreme cold. The potential is environmentally-friendly de-icers. -
The State of Michigan is using $3.65 million to establish or restore wetland areas. Ducks Unlimited is administering the program. A request for proposals has been issued. -
The Michigan legislature is considering a bill that would require farm equipment manufacturers to make specialized tools and software available to farmers and third party repair shops instead of forcing farmers to get service from a dealership. -
A University of Michigan study compared the costs of buying and owning electric, hybrid, and gasoline vehicles in 14 U.S. cities, including Detroit. -
Students studied the Maple River near the University of Michigan Biological Station to understand what happens to a stream and its ecology when a dam is removed. -
The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community would get $34 million if legislation passed by the U.S. Senate is approved by the House and signed by President Joe Biden. -
The Michigan State of the Great Lakes 2023 report outlines concerns and some potential solutions for the lakes and the watersheds that feed them. -
Michigan won't reach the phosphorus reduction goal by 2025 as planned. It's uncertain when it might attain that goal to help reduce cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Erie. -
The Great Lakes Compact is an agreement approved by the eight Great Lakes states, Ontario, Quebec, and the federal governments of Canada and the U.S. to restrict water withdrawals from the lakes.
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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… -
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… -
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.… -
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… -
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.… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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…
