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Great Lakes

Cuts to Great Lakes Restoration Initiative proposed again in federal budget

By Maxwell Evans | March 22, 2019

For the third straight year federal officials are threatening to cut the budget for restoring contaminated sites in the Great Lakes. And while Congress has so far resisted such cuts, environmental officials fear the constant attacks on the popular program.

Climate change

Deadly fish virus returns to northern Michigan hatchery

By Marshall Lee Weimer | March 21, 2019

The Marquette State Fish Hatchery lost around 100,000 fish in 2012 to the disease, according to a new publication in the American Fisheries Society. Similar losses happened again in 2017.

Land

Sustainability in the Michigan dairy industry: Robotic milking

By Quinn Zimmerman | February 21, 2019

Part two in a series of podcasts looking at sustainability in Michigan’s dairy industry.

Land

Sustainability in the Michigan dairy industry

By Quinn Zimmerman | February 20, 2019

The first in a two-part podcast series looking at sustainability in the Michigan dairy industry.

Algae

Monitoring algal blooms in the Great Lakes Basin

By Kurt Williams | February 13, 2019

This is how algal blooms are monitored in the Great Lakes Basin.

Nearshore

Living with algal blooms: How one Michigan town manages its water

By Kurt Williams | February 11, 2019

Like many coastal communities in the Great Lakes Basin, Monroe, Michigan, relies on water drawn directly from one of the five Great Lakes: Erie.

Wildlife

DNR urges anglers to help slow the spread of fish disease

By Zaria Phillips | February 6, 2019

A disease that kills one of Michigan’s most popular gamefish appears to be spreading northward, worrying anglers and fisheries managers.

Waste

Michigan communities get state money to collect scrap tires

By Sheila Schimpf | January 28, 2019

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.

Agriculture

Thank changing climate for bigger Midwest maize yields

By Eric Freedman | December 12, 2018

A warming climate has contributed to higher maize yields in Michigan and other Corn Belt states, a new study has found.

Agriculture

Millennials pine for real trees

By Kaley Fech | December 11, 2018

Michigan produces the third most Christmas trees in the nation and no state grows more varieties, according to tree experts.

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

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