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A number of Michigan counties have fewer healthy food outlets than the national average, a new study shows.
The overall percentage of counties’ access to healthy foods in the state is 73 percent, while the national benchmark is 92 percent, according to County Health Rankings, complied by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
State agencies are striving to prepare Michigan’s recreational areas for the upcoming summer.
Winners of an urban water data World Water Day challenge designed a mashup that compares water supply and use. Generate your own water footprint or print labels to show how much water is embodied in products.
Use this easy tool to find national wildlife refuges in your Great Lakes state, search by zipcode or view all of them from a list.
The Great Lakes Association of Science Ships has a new way of tracking U.S. and Canadian vessels researching the sweetwater seas.
There are about 100 such vessels.
The association’s ship locator is meant to help researchers collaborate and more efficiently use the vessels.
In 1971 an astronaut orbited the moon while carrying seeds that were later planted across the country. Exact records of the “Moon tree” locations weren’t kept, but astronaut David Williams has tracked down some locations.
You may find out more than you want to about environmental activities in your area in the EPA Enviromapper.
This EPA map shows almost anything you want (or may not want) to know: from hazardous waste sites to the locations chemicals in use like ammonia.
A service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture mapped the distributions of plant species in North America in addition to other plant characteristics in an online database.
The Wisconsin Coastal Guide maps lighthouses, shipwrecks, parks, beaches and other attractions along the state’s Lake Michigan and Lake Superior shorelines, part of the Great Lakes Circle Tour.
A new map by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources identifies where the Ohio Lake Erie coast could be lost to erosion over the next 30 years. Areas predicted to erode more than 11 feet are designated.