Climate
Climate change: A tourist trap
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Warmer winters mean ski resorts like Michigan’s Crystal Mountain Lodge have to get creative about sustaining revenue.
Climate
Climate change tinkers with animal relationships and which survive
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Climate change is changing the rules of who thrives and who dies in Great Lakes ecosystems.
Climate
Uncertainty floods the future of Great Lakes’ water quality and quantity
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Climate change poses uncertainty about water levels and algae blooms in the Great Lakes.
Climate
The state of the Great Lakes: What to expect from climate change
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The first in a series of stories on what the Great Lakes region can expect from climate change in the not-so-far-off future.
Echo
The Mighty Mac
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Views of the longest suspension bridge in the western hemisphere on a chilly May morning.
Homepage Featured
A field guide for fruit flies
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New book “Drosophilids of the Midwest and Northeast” gives fruit flies overdue accolades.
Echo
Historian honors Detroit architect in new book
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Wirt Rowland has been called the father of the modern skyscraper. He left his mark especially on the city of Detroit, designing five of the behemoths marking the city skyline.
Wildlife
A frog concert after dark
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Citizen scientists survey the state’s wetlands, listening to male frogs and toads croak their pick-up lines into the dark.
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Two species – one to preserve, one to control – challenge removal of dam on Michigan’s Grand River
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The Sixth Street Dam in Grand Rapids used to be a valuable tool in log transportation, but its planned removal now poses an environmental risk by endangering snuffbox mussels and potentially allowing the invasive sea lamprey to spread.