bees
Program boosts health of hives and heroes
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Veterans gain skills and community from a program that also benefits honeybees.
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Phrag fight: is it friend or foe?
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How the First Nations people of Walpole Island are approaching the phragmites problem.
Wildlife
Dead deer data help detect wasting disease
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The technique helps speed the detection of Chronic Wasting Disease.
Wildlife
The whole deck is wild in this new game
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It’s a painless bridging of nature and urban environments for kids.
Agriculture
Two new plants needed to process $1.6 billion in Michigan milk
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Michigan farmers, now among the top dairy producers in the nation, are suffering from the state’s lack of capacity to process milk. New plants are in the works for Greenville and St. Johns. We talk to a Westphalia farmer, Michigan Milk Producers, Farm Bureau and Department of Agriculture & Rural Development
Coal
New report discloses how much toxic coal ash Michigan utilities produce
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Michigan electric utilities last year produced nearly 1.5 million tons of toxic coal ash, a material that may threaten the state’s drinking water. The amount of the material stored in landfills and settling ponds and that can contain arsenic, mercury and lead was reported recently in a study by the Michigan Environmental Council.
Energy
Energy alternatives on the rise in Michigan–slowly
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The number of Michiganders producing some of their own electricity from solar, wind and water power jumped 35 percent in 2017. That helped offset some of their power costs, but it still amounts to a tiny bit of the state’s electricity needs, according to a recent report by the Public Service Commission.
Nearshore
Water plant provides physical and spiritual sustenance
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The story of wild rice and its relationship to Native American culture.
Nearshore
Bowling Green State University opens algae-fighting center
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The university recently announced a $5.2 million federal grant to create the Lake Erie Center for Fresh Waters and Human Health.
Nearshore
Poll shows indigenous people more aware of Great Lakes threats
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Among the differences is that 20 percent of the non-indigenous respondents didn’t know where their drinking water comes from but only about 1 percent of indigenous people were not sure.