Climate
Warmer weather, new pests threaten vineyards, wine industry
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Climate change is pushing vineyard owners to prepare for possible impacts, including the effects on pests that threaten Michigan’s $2.1 billion-a-year wine industry.
Climate
Farmer depression deepens as climate warms
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The heavy rain in recent years has left farmers with dangerously high levels of stress.
Climate
Plant trees, store carbon, save the environment
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Michigan’s 3.9 million acres of state forests could be recruited for a fight to limit climate change by storing carbon emissions.
Climate
Google adds Detroit to online sustainability database
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The Environmental Insight Explorer collects a city’s potential solar output, carbon emissions and long term climate outlook.
CIGLR
Michigan’s Sleeping Bear gets hot wake up call
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The northwest part of Michigan’s lower peninsula has already warmed two degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times, double that in most of the rest of the country, according to an analysis of federal temperature data dating back to 1895.
Catch of the Day
Great Lakes climate crisis solutions featured by reporting collaboration
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It’s a coordinated look at Midwest attempts to limit greenhouse gases.
Climate
Canadian study: Wide water level swings, erratic snowfall in store for Great Lakes
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The first comprehensive look at climate change impacts on Canada says the country is warming twice as fast as much of the rest of the world.
Climate
Harsh weather could lead to earlier school year in Michigan
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This winter’s polar vortex may have given Michigan school districts leverage for eliminating a state requirement that their start dates must be after Labor Day, with implications for tourism and other businesses.
Agriculture
Strawberry farmers assess polar vortex damage, take precautions against cold
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Now is the most crucial time to ensure a productive strawberry crop, experts say. Precautions are needed to avoid misshapen berries with poor color that could allow large strawberry-producing states to displace the market for local fruit.
Climate
Poor mixing of nutrients among looming climate change impacts
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A temperature change of 3 to 4 degrees is also big enough to push back annual events, such as bird migrations and the developmental stages of plants, experts say.