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Light pollution is a migratory deathtrap

By Nicoline Bradford | April 5, 2023

The review found that the impact occurs at the local, regional and larger scales.

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Creating habitat to help fish reproduce is costlier, but more effective than restoring it

By Vladislava Sukhanovskaya | April 4, 2023

Habitat restoration can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, years of time and the collaborative effort of engineers, scientists and designers. It may be better to just start from scratch. 

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Highway reconstruction tries to repair historic mistakes

By Guest Contributor | March 29, 2023

It will spark new thinking about what can be done when a bridge or a freeway needs to be rebuilt.

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New book for tree lovers is rooted in memory

By Vladislava Sukhanovskaya | March 28, 2023

The idea for the book came from a little notebook into which Dunphy writes what occupies her mind.

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Polluter-pay laws could return under Democratic majority

By Guest Contributor | March 22, 2023

Strengthening the laws would be instrumental to us as we think about the future of this state and what is going to attract and retain people here.

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Measures taken to reduce Ontario toxic hotspots

By Guest Contributor | March 15, 2023

Measures have reduced the overall number of Areas of Concern in Canada by three, bringing the total to nine.

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Waukegan activists get federal grant to test for EtO that causes cancer

By Vladislava Sukhanovskaya | March 14, 2023

Activists from Stop EtO established the nonprofit Lake County Environmental Works and got $270,000 to test the air for EtO.

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Turning a chronicle of the Fox River clean-up into a story

By Jake Christie | March 6, 2023

Paper Valley started as a simple exercise in chronicling the past, but turned into something more.

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New book connects the environment with a love of dogs

By Vladislava Sukhanovskaya | February 9, 2023

They’re drawn to it because of some personal connection to whether it be the neighborhood they grew up in, the forest they’ve walked in, the lakes [where] they’ve smoked salmon. So it’s a natural thing to tie environmental matters to personal experiences.

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Woof, there it is: A spotted lanternfly!

By Genevieve Fox | February 8, 2023

These dogs continue to work on other invasive species detection prevention projects like sticky sage and oak wilt, a type of fungus.

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About Great Lakes Echo

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

  • 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.

  • Wolves hunt beavers in Isle Royale National Park, changing the ecosystem

    By Akia Thrower A new study reveals how gray wolves in Isle Royale National Park seasonally alter their habitat preferences to align with beavers’ habitat preferences, a shift that might have implications for the island’s ecosystem.

  • Green clues: Crime-busters turn to moss to help solve crimes 

    By Eric Freedman Tiny pieces of moss can be crime-busters, says a study examining how law enforcement agencies, forensic teams and botanists have used moss to solve murders, track missing people, calculate how long ago someone died and – in a notorious Mason County case – try to locate the body of a baby murdered by her father.

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