Capital News Service
New tool against pollution is ancient: tree canopies
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Trees’ leafy canopies work like an umbrella over the pavement, keeping rainwater from flowing across the ground and into larger bodies of water.
Forests
Pennsylvania’s forest primeval
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Scenes from Hearts Content in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest.
Catch of the Day
NASA grants MSU $1.5 million to study how humans hurt the environment
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Pollutants like agricultural runoff can be a boon to invasive species.
Agriculture
Michigan program boosts school nutrition with local foods
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A Michigan program offers up to 10 cents per meal for schools to purchase Michigan grown or processed food.
Capital News Service
Bill would let some counties veto state land purchases in Michigan
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Michigan counties with lots of public land are looking to take some control over state land purchases.
Art
Book gives voice to Driftless Area artists
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A recent book puts together writings and pictures from the Driftless Area, a unique Midwestern region.
Capital News Service
After 25 years, brownfield cleanup still totals millions
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Since it was launched in 1992, the Brownfield Redevelopment Program has awarded $200 million in brownfield grants and loans for 350 projects in Michigan.
Agriculture
California fires will have little impact on Michigan wine sales
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The full impact of wildfires in Northern California’s wine country is not yet clear.
Climate change
Saving the great Northwoods may require transforming it
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As a warming climate transforms forests across the northern Great Lakes, scientists working in the iconic Minnesotan landscape are embracing the change.
Land
Helping the Great Lakes one dairy cow at a time
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What does a dairy cow have to do with a healthy lake ecosystem? At a recent Great Lakes Restoration Conference in Buffalo New York, people were invited out to witness that connection first hand.