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Michigan “Dark Sky” park offers meteor shower viewing

By Guest Contributor | August 6, 2015

The Perseid meteor shower is back this month, and prime viewing spots are close to the Mackinac Bridge.

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Public service announcement: heed warning flags

By Brooke Kansier | July 20, 2015

This Be Current Smart video covers exactly what those flags at the beach mean, and why it’s so important to pay attention to them.

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Public service announcement: escape dangerous currents

By Brooke Kansier | July 14, 2015

Here’s another tip from Be Current Smart to keep yourself safe around dangerous currents this summer.

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School water safety instruction as important as tornado and fire drills

By Brooke Kansier | July 2, 2015

Drowning is second only to car accidents in unintentional death for children age one to 14, and is the leading cause of accidental death for those four and under.

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Wisconsin regulators work to balance big bass with lots of them

By Holly Drankhan | July 1, 2015

One concern: largemouth bass may be competing with and eating the young of the popular walleye.

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Public service announcement: throw them a lifeline

By Brooke Kansier | June 29, 2015

What do you do when someone is struggling in the water?

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Birch bark canoe artists keep Native American tradition afloat

By Holly Drankhan | June 25, 2015

Native Americans have worked to return what was once merely a souvenir shop item to a craft that is a symbol of individual and community pride,

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Echo Eco Cup winner goes Wild

By Eamon Devlin | June 19, 2015

Lake Ontario not enough to put Toronto over the top.

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Keeping a diamond green in variable weather

By Greg Monahan | June 17, 2015

Lansing Lugnuts head groundskeeper Lenny Yoder explains how he manages to keep the baseball club’s field green and in playable shape while dealing with Michigan’s unpredictable weather.

Recreation

Leafs win semis; face the Wild in finals of Echo’s Eco Cup challenge

By Eamon Devlin | June 12, 2015

Will the team that uses Lake Ontario to cool its arena be favored in a Great Lakes challenge? Vote now and argue for who will be declared champion on Tuesday.

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

  • Henderson holding a swan
    From otters to butterflies: How Minnesota became a pioneer in nongame wildlife conservation

    By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva In the late 1970s, when most wildlife conservation programs in the United States focused almost exclusively on game species, a quiet but historic shift began in Minnesota. It was here that one of the nation’s first state programs dedicated to protecting so-called nongame wildlife emerged from butterflies and bats to bald eagles and river otters. That story is now told in detail by Carrol Henderson in his new book, “A National Legacy: Fifty Years of Nongame Wildlife Conservation in Minnesota."

  • Michigan’s water infrastructure sees improvements, work still needs to be done

    By Clara Lincolnhol The U.S. would need to invest nearly $3.4 trillion over the next 20 years to fix and update drinking water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure, says researchers from The Value of Water Campaign. Much of that infrastructure was built 40 to 50 years ago and shows its age. Michigan’s is no exception. The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the state a D+ for its drinking water infrastructure, a D in storm water management and a C for its wastewater infrastructure. Funding is a major problem. Proposed data centers would put more stress on the infrastructure.

  • Mussels in a green net.
    Endangered spectaclecase mussels reintroduced into the Chippewa River

    By Ada Tussing To combat the population loss of spectaclecase mussels, researchers with both the Minnesota and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources released over 177 mussels into the Chippewa River in Northwest Wisconsin.

  • Michigan allocates $77 million to clean thousands of contaminated sites

    By Clara Lincolnhol Michigan is pouring $77 million into clean-up of contaminated abandoned real estate such as former factories. The director of the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy says the goal is to make the cleaned-up sites safe for housing, commercial developments and other uses.

  • Winter makes curved roads dangerous; researchers seek solutions

    By Eric Freedman Flashing light on warning signs near curves can slow drivers and reduce the odds of a crash during winter weather conditions, says a new study by Michigan State University engineers.

  • The cover of “Dead Moose on Isle Royale: Off Trail with the Citizen Scientists of the Wolf-Moose Project." The cover is moose antlers on the ground.
    Great Lakes books for your holiday gift list 

    By Eric Freedman   Looking for a holiday gift for a reader who loves the Great Lakes? Here are five prospects to consider – and what our reporters learned from interviewing their authors this year.

  • A side-by-side of the historic Portage Canal and modern Portage Canal from an aerial view.
    Restoration of historical site improves quality of life for Portage, Wisconsin residents

    By Joshua Kim Following the completion of segments 1 and 2 of the Portage Canal, local residents and visitors can use the historic site and its amenities following years of disrepair.

  • What herring gulls tell us about plastic pollution

    By Victoria Witke Christina Petalas, a doctoral student McGill University, studies herring gulls to learn about plastic pollution near the St. Lawrence River. Across two studies, she found plastic additives in every bird sampled, which could have human health consequences.

  • Scientists update geological map of northern Wisconsin, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula 

    By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva The U.S. Geological Survey has began large-scale low-level airplane flights over Michigan's Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin to obtain high-resolution data on subsurface mineral structures and bedrock composition. The data will be used to create two- and three-dimensional maps to better understand the geological structure at depths of about 10,000 feet.

  • ‘Refusal is insisting on your own terms’: Indigenous activism in the Midwest

    By Isabella Figueroa Nogueira “Indigenous Activism in the Midwest: Refusal, Resurgence and Resisting Settler Colonialism” explores how Dakota and Anishinaabe communities in Minnesota continue their relationships to the land and challenge dominant settler narratives about ownership, belonging and identity.

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