Echo
Dialing for danger? Many drivers do, new study shows
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A new study details the groups of Michigan drivers more likely to engage in the risky behavior.
Echo
Judges declaw Indiana zoo for illegally declawing Big Cat cubs, abusing animals
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A roadside zoo in Charlestown, Indiana, has violated the Endangered Species Act by declawing Big Cats – tigers, lions and hybrids – “without a medical necessity” and separating cubs as young as 1 day old from their mothers, a federal judge has ruled.
covid
Pandemic impacts library services, budgets in long term
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Library patrons may not be spending hours browsing the stacks for new reads, but Michigan librarians are still busy quarantining books and shipping them to eager summer readers.
Echo
Hear crickets chirping in the evening? Use them to tell the temperature
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The steady sound of crickets chirping in the evening is a staple of a midwest summer. And with some simple math that chirping can be utilized to tell the temperature.
Echo
Remembering the birth of Isle Royale’s wolf-moose study
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When L. David Mech arrived at Isle Royale in 1959, he had no idea he would pioneer the nation’s longest-running prey-predator study, one that would become a model for wildlife biologists around the world.
Echo
Ohio slaughterhouse operator sent to prison for environmental, money laundering crimes
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A federal judge in Ohio has sentenced an illegal slaughterhouse operator to 33 months behind bars for dumping animal blood and other “bodily fluids” into a waterway that empties into Beaver Creek and Lake Erie in violation of the Clean Water Act.
Art
Artists, activists shift environmental art exhibit online during pandemic
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An art exhibition and panel discussions hosted by the Detroit Center for Design + Technology that addresses climate change is available to explore online through August 15.
Art
New cookbook highlights food of Great Lakes Indigenous peoples
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A new cookbook serves up the culture along with the food of the Indigenous people of the Great Lakes region.
Echo
Podcast: The Future of Forest Threats
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Great Lakes Echo and the Northern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service are collaborating to share the first season of their podcast, Forestcast.
aquaculture
Fish farmers find new applications for old dairy farming equipment
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As smaller dairy farms are sold to larger operations, fish farmers are finding use for their old manure lagoons.