Great Lakes Echo (http://greatlakesecho.org/tag/commentary/page/2/)
Opinion and commentary about Great Lakes issues.
What do you do when an employee comes forward, exposing their company for wrongdoing?
Environmental journalists discussed how to handle that situation at a recent Society of Environmental Journalist Conference in Philadelphia.
Fields pockmarked by bombs, forests torn up by trenches and littered with landmines, cities around the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine flooded and then left with a water shortage as the reservoir dries up.
These scenes in Ukraine and Gaza are a few examples of how war leaves long lasting damage to the environment.
Reporting on environmental problems and controversies remains a perilous endeavor, as demonstrated by a series of incidents around the globe.
Journalists are physically assaulted, jailed, interrogated by police, kidnapped, fired, sued for libel, harassed and even murdered for seeking to expose environmental crimes
I love red maple and bright yellow ginkgo leaves. I pick them up and stick them to the walls of my bedroom.
Summer days were always longer in Michigan than in Missouri.
Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes, but I couldn’t have felt farther from the Great ones.
Sitting outside as the campfire crackles on a breezy summer night in the backyard while the sun finally starts to set. Seeing fireflies start to take their place among the trees.
As a long-time angler and ichthyology student, I thought I knew a lot about the bowfin. But recent developments have shown that much of what I knew about this fish was wrong.
It was almost hypnotizing, hearing the calls of seagulls and the splashing of the tide as I took in this serene view.
Going back home is so much more than reuniting with my family – it’s reuniting with the environment I grew up in.