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Coping with Covid-19

VA nurse manages telehealth calls

By Nyjah Bunn | May 12, 2020

Her daughter lives with relatives.

Coping with Covid-19

Covid takeaways: good night’s sleep, less planning

By Hunter Hicks | May 12, 2020

This is part of  Coping with COVID-19, a series of brief looks at people in a pandemic.

Coping with Covid-19

Chips, candy run over even after COVID-19

By Wells Foster | May 11, 2020

More reading likely to continue.

Coping with Covid-19

Reading, cleaning replaces social media and phone use

By Wells Foster | May 11, 2020

East Lansing woman hopes to keep it up after quarantine.

Coping with Covid-19

Loss of social connection challenges recovering addicts

By Lucas Day | May 8, 2020

Isolation is something that addiction wants, and without being connected, and without having support from like-minded people, the chances of people returning back to addiction are very high.

Coping with Covid-19

Quarantine renews teacher appreciation

By Kurt Williams | May 8, 2020

And grandma’s got some love coming her way, too.

Coping with Covid-19

Michigan customers support favorite businesses during COVID-19 crisis

By Ben Goldman | May 7, 2020

While Michigan businesses struggle to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic, loyal customers search for ways to help them out. Here’s a look at some of their stories.

Coping with Covid-19

New title brings new responsibilities

By Nyjah Bunn | May 6, 2020

Group home supervisor is an essential worker

Coping with Covid-19

Online grocery shopping is a coronavirus legacy

By Angela Mulka | May 6, 2020

Quarantine pushed Dow retiree to give it a try. Now he’s sold.

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Covid-19 animal care: curbside service, pet supply delivery, video adoptions

By Taylor Haelterman | May 5, 2020

Animal-related organizations across the Great Lakes region face new challenges in caring for their critters in the midst of a pandemic.

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

  • 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.

  • Cannabis workers are developing job-related asthma and some have died, study says

    By Clara Lincolnhol New research says workers picking, grinding and packaging cannabis are developing workplace-related asthma, and two deaths have occurred so far.

  • Swiss researcher studies ‘abandonment tourism’ in Detroit

    By Camila Bello Castro A recent case study of a former “abandonment tourism” business in Detroit found a disconnect between the lived experience of many city residents and the lives of the tour participants who were generally white, younger and more international than most Detroiters and generally first-time visitors to the city.

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