DDT

Hook, line, and sinker. Julie Melotti with the Michigan DNR points out the hook, swivel, and sinker a trumpeter swan swallowed. The sinker was made of lead and the swan died from lead poisoning.

The Bird Connection: Change and decline in our world, Part 2 - Pollution

Lester Graham

The second part in a series about waterbirds in the Great Lakes region and the pollutants that are contributing to their population declines.

American bald eagles have recovered after the population dropped dramatically due to DDT poisoning.

Environment & Climate Change

Bald eagles nearly died out. What can we learn from their return to the southern Great Lakes?

Emma McIntosh|The Narwhal

The pesticide DDT nearly wiped out North America’s bald eagles. Communities, scientists, and politicians worked hard to bring this symbolic bird back from the brink.

Velsicol Chemical operating on the banks of the Pine River in St. Louis, Michigan.

Environment & Climate Change

Next phase of notorious Superfund cleanup set to begin

Steve Carmody

The Velsicol Chemical Corporation (formerly Michigan Chemical) operated a plant in St. Louis, Michigan from the 1930s into the 1970s. Spills and chemical discharges contaminated sediment, surface soil and groundwater.

Environment & Climate Change

EPA heats soil to boil away underground contamination at superfund site

Dustin Dwyer

The ground is getting warmer at one of the state’s most contaminated sites.The Environmental Protection Agency is using a process called thermal…