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. -
Conservation agencies are asking people to examine trees, looking for signs of the invasive Asian longhorned beetle. -
Federal money can be used to restore wetlands, buy property to use as a buffer, and invest in nature-based infrastructure. -
Voters can vote on issues or for candidates for municipalities and local taxing districts on August 8, 2023. -
Local, state, and federal agencies conduct exercises based on worst case scenarios of petroleum spills into the Great Lakes. -
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. -
Autonomous research vessels are gathering data about fish in the Great Lakes. -
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. -
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. -
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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One evening in the late 1800s, a lighthouse keeper named John Herman was drinking, as he usually did, when he decided to play a prank on his assistant.… -
On a calm morning in late summer 2019, Jim Bailey was kayaking on Lake Superior near Thunder Bay, Ontario, when he found himself paddling through thick… -
When you visit one of the Great Lakes, whether it’s a sandy beach or a rocky coastline, it’s hard to imagine how something so big could be affected so profoundly by alien invasive species, or pollution, or climate change. -
Brian Owens is with Great Lakes Now.Natural populations of oil-degrading bacteria could help to clean up freshwater rivers and lakes after spills from… -
It’s just before 6 p.m. on a breezy Wednesday evening in Little Village, a neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side. Department of Water Management staffers… -
In the early 1970s, Chicago embarked on one of the region’s most ambitious and expensive infrastructure projects to date: the Tunnel and Reservoir Project… -
What does Michigan’s future look like if we adequately prepare the state’s water resources for climate change? Goodbye to septics and shorehugging homes.… -
Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) are forecasting the… -
Water ran from a fire hydrant, down the street and into a recently redesigned street median in Detroit last week.It was both unassuming and a… -
Some coal fired power plants are being closed. Still, most of Michigan’s utilities heavily rely on coal.“In 2019, coal still fueled the largest share of…
