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Above average number of wildfires predicted by summer’s end
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The increased fire incidence is expected in August and September as a long winter and late spring delayed the fire season.
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Television show examines Wisconsin mine proposal
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The battle against what could be the nation’s largest open pit mine in a rural, pristine area of northern Wisconsin is now the subject of a television show. In Wisconsin’s Penokee Mountain Range just south of Lake Superior, Gogebic Taconite, or GTAC, a mining company from West Virginia, seeks to develop an open pit iron ore mine that could expand to be 22 miles long. At 7 p.m. (ET) Saturday, Al Jazeera America’s Fault Lines program will detail the local, environmental and political angles of the project. Fault Lines, co-hosted by Josh Rushing, is an investigative journalism TV show. The show can be viewed on the Al Jazeera America channel, which is available across the country on DirecTV, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Dish, Verizon, Bright House Networks, among others.
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Michigan crosswalk safety rules unclear, hinder walkability
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Communities are increasingly requesting “Yield to pedestrian” signs to improve walkability, but others fear the signs provide a false sense of security.
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Decades-long research values ecosystem services to farming, environment
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The research recently reported in BioScience magazine also shows the public’s willingness to pay for such services.
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Upending the basin: Name the best town in the Great Lakes
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Let’s have a real regional competition for the fairest town in the basin.
Make your case here.
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Researchers look to spin grass into beef
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They hope to overcome climate and other hurdles to produce leaner cuts increasingly demanded by consumers.
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Manure spraying under scrutiny
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Spraying manure on farm fields while rare now has taken on new urgency as more large dairy farms consider the practice.
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Commission advises linking environmental and human health data
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A recent International Joint Commission (IJC) report recommends monitoring chemicals and toxic substances in the fluid and tissues of young children and pregnant women.
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Emory University tests Michigan residents exposed to PBB
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The concern is whether contamination left by the Velsicol Chemical Co. in St. Louis, Mich., has longterm health consequences for the county’s residents more than 40 years later.
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Deadly piglet virus hits Midwest farms
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Pig farmers in Michigan and around the nation are losing piglets to a virus that is easily spread and almost always lethal to very young animals. So far, it’s killed over six million piglets.