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Brooke Kansier

Wildlife
Michigan moose

Michigan lawmakers mull tougher poaching penalties

By Brooke Kansier | September 30, 2015

The bills would increase poaching penalties with a steep hike in restitution prices.

Lake Erie algal bloom. July 28, 2015
Water

EPA app targets mobile algae forecasting

By Brooke Kansier | August 31, 2015

New EPA app maps algal blooms to warn water managers, help control health risks and educate the public.

Land

Pothole prevention: smart roads signal repair needs

By Brooke Kansier | August 24, 2015

New sensors embedded in concrete or asphalt generate their own power and can tell engineers when road quality deteriorates.

Land

Are robot cars good for the environment?

By Brooke Kansier | August 20, 2015

Experts say that could go either way and depends on who wins the transportation policy debate.

Waste

Documentary searches for hope in nuclear waste

By Brooke Kansier | July 24, 2015

The film explores the science and controversy of Canada’s search for a Great Lakes-area underground storage site for spent nuclear fuel that could take 250,000 years to safely decay.

Wildlife

Great whites in the Great Lakes? Bull shark!

By Brooke Kansier | July 23, 2015

It likely would be a bull shark if any shark ever cruised the sweetwater seas.

Recreation

Public service announcement: heed warning flags

By Brooke Kansier | July 20, 2015

This Be Current Smart video covers exactly what those flags at the beach mean, and why it’s so important to pay attention to them.

Recreation

Public service announcement: escape dangerous currents

By Brooke Kansier | July 14, 2015

Here’s another tip from Be Current Smart to keep yourself safe around dangerous currents this summer.

Water

Drink a beer, save a lake

By Brooke Kansier | July 2, 2015

Bar, brewery team up for Great Lakes fundraiser.

Recreation

School water safety instruction as important as tornado and fire drills

By Brooke Kansier | July 2, 2015

Drowning is second only to car accidents in unintentional death for children age one to 14, and is the leading cause of accidental death for those four and under.

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Environmental news of the Great Lakes region from the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University.

  • More funding approved to improve the Greater Chicago Area’s public transit

    By Joshua Kim Following the passing of new legislation by the Illinois General Assembly, the Regional Transport Authority, soon to be the Northern Illinois Transit Agency, will receive an additional $1.2 billion for its annual budget this year. The additional funding will be used to improve “frequency, reliability, and safety”

  • Book helps residents, visitors, use Chicago’s public transit to access recreational sites

    By Joshua Kim “Chicago Transit Hikes," a new book by Lindsay Welbers, aims to help Chicago residents and visitors reach outdoor recreation sites car-free.

  • Solar projects bring larger economic gains to smaller communities, study shows

    By Isabella Figueroa Nogueira A recent study examines how solar projects could be planned in ways that benefit rural communities without significantly increasing electricity costs.

  • Miller in the woods
    Invasive species expert teaches volunteers to overcome ‘plant blindness’

    By Anna Ironside Caroline Miller is a botanical technologist at Michigan State University’s W.J. Beal Botanical Garden, as well as a master’s student. Her work has made her a driving force behind restoration projects on campus and beyond. From invasive species removal days to a growing movement to replace traditional turf lawns with native landscapes, Miller doesn’t quit.

  • Headshot of Ethan Theuerkauf
    Growth in shoreline armoring is reshaping Michigan’s Lake Michigan coast

    By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva A new study documents a fivefold increase in shoreline armoring along Lake Michigan’s Eastern coast.

  • How seeds from the past are saving a unique flower of the Great Lakes

    By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva More than 30 years ago, a group of scientists planted just 4,200 seeds of the rare Pitcher’s thistle in the sandy dunes of the Great Lakes. At the time, no one knew if the new populations would survive. Today, three decades later, the restored populations are thriving and spreading.

  • Henderson holding a swan
    From otters to butterflies: How Minnesota became a pioneer in nongame wildlife conservation

    By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva In the late 1970s, when most wildlife conservation programs in the United States focused almost exclusively on game species, a quiet but historic shift began in Minnesota. It was here that one of the nation’s first state programs dedicated to protecting so-called nongame wildlife emerged from butterflies and bats to bald eagles and river otters. That story is now told in detail by Carrol Henderson in his new book, “A National Legacy: Fifty Years of Nongame Wildlife Conservation in Minnesota."

  • Michigan’s water infrastructure sees improvements, work still needs to be done

    By Clara Lincolnhol The U.S. would need to invest nearly $3.4 trillion over the next 20 years to fix and update drinking water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure, says researchers from The Value of Water Campaign. Much of that infrastructure was built 40 to 50 years ago and shows its age. Michigan’s is no exception. The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the state a D+ for its drinking water infrastructure, a D in storm water management and a C for its wastewater infrastructure. Funding is a major problem. Proposed data centers would put more stress on the infrastructure.

  • Mussels in a green net.
    Endangered spectaclecase mussels reintroduced into the Chippewa River

    By Ada Tussing To combat the population loss of spectaclecase mussels, researchers with both the Minnesota and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources released over 177 mussels into the Chippewa River in Northwest Wisconsin.

  • Michigan allocates $77 million to clean thousands of contaminated sites

    By Clara Lincolnhol Michigan is pouring $77 million into clean-up of contaminated abandoned real estate such as former factories. The director of the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy says the goal is to make the cleaned-up sites safe for housing, commercial developments and other uses.

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