Commentary
Along the Inter Urban
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Reflections on exploring the outdoors close to home.
Land
Abandoned mines aplenty, but cash to clean, close them, scarcer
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Nobody knows how many abandoned mine features such as tunnels, shafts, pits and waste piles remain on federal land in Michigan and elsewhere, but untold numbers of them pose safety and environmental threats, a new General Accountability Office (GAO) report says.
Echo
Remembering the UP’s break-away movement
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The time was the 1970s, when many Yoopers believed that the push to strengthen national and state environmental laws posed an economic threat to the U.P., especially its mining, lumbering and agricultural industries.
Echo
Partisan divide widens over environmental policy priorities
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A growing proportion of Americans see environmental protection and global climate change as policy priorities, while worries about the economy are shrinking, a new national survey says.
Catch of the Day
Falconers plead guilty to illegally bartering northern goshawk
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Prosecutors alleged that the men took nestlings from a nest in northern Wisconsin’s Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest and from another nest on state land.
endangered species
For one butterfly, Michigan may be its last, best hope
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The endangered Poweshiek skipperling butterfly, is now known to survive in the wild in only two places on earth: Michigan and Manitoba.
Echo
What makes a healthy diet? A table, no TV and fresh food
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Households that eat family-style meals together at the table with the TV off may have healthier diets than families who don’t.
Homepage Featured
Isle Royale squirrels may have swum from mainland
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Isle Royale’s abundant red squirrels were once considered a localized subspecies. But the latest DNA testing tells a different story.
Echo
Want to get to work faster? You’ll have to drive
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Getting to work every day can be a pain, but the amount of pain varies depending on where you live and how you get to your job. Traveling by public transportation such as buses often takes twice as long – or more – as driving alone.
bees
New non-native bee discovered in Illinois, Minnesota
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Scientists have found a new species of non-native wild bee in Illinois and Minnesota.