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The round-up of scrap tires, known to be both fire and mosquito hazards, is the goal of almost $1 million in state grants awarded recently by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
How do you know if what you’re looking at is an invasive species? There’s an app for that.
Environmentalists are celebrating the return of the Kirtland’s warbler in Michigan’s Northern Lower Peninsula.
Predictions are that wine prices will rise because of global problems facing the industry, with 2017 production at its lowest level in 60 years amid poor crops caused by bad weather and wildfires.
A new order by the Michigan Public Service Commission will reduce savings for homes deciding to generate electricity from solar energy, possibly creating a disincentive for homeowners to install solar systems.
Michigan is moving to better accommodate electric cars with upcoming pilot programs by DTE Energy and Consumers Energy.
Americans use lots and lots of plastic straws, and that’s bad for the environment.
A new study done in Ontario and Michigan finds that waterfowl aren’t the only beneficiaries of wetlands management projects and restoration–many other bird and frog species benefit too.
Angling for brook trout? Fourteen U.P. counties — Menominee is the sole exception — now have at least one stream where the daily bag limit for brook trout is five rather than 10.
State agencies and their partners are working to save the declining monarch butterfly, which is threatened by the black swallow-wort, an invasive vine that resembles the milkweed plants that monarchs need to eat.