Art
This art plants seeds of environmental awareness
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Repurposing seeds into art is how botanical artist Shilin Hora’s helps people appreciate nature.
Climate change
Deadly fish virus returns to northern Michigan hatchery
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The Marquette State Fish Hatchery lost around 100,000 fish in 2012 to the disease, according to a new publication in the American Fisheries Society. Similar losses happened again in 2017.
Climate
Poor mixing of nutrients among looming climate change impacts
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A temperature change of 3 to 4 degrees is also big enough to push back annual events, such as bird migrations and the developmental stages of plants, experts say.
Climate
New climate study matches cities to their future selves
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Local officials say study could help them prepare their cities for climate change, including planting different species of trees.
CIGLR
Researchers to sharpen Great Lakes ice alerts
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The data is available. Now the challenge is to provide it in a way that helps Great Lakes shippers and ice breakers.
The Buzz
Culinary guide gives bees something to buzz about
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Discovering what bees like to eat has important ramifications for growers and farmers whose flowering fruits and vegetables depend on bees for pollination.
Echo
Between government shutdowns? Great Lakes researchers struggle to carry on
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Another shutdown could irreversibly damage research efforts and make it difficult to schedule federal boats, buoys and labs that scientists need.
Homepage Featured
Phrag fight: is it friend or foe?
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How the First Nations people of Walpole Island are approaching the phragmites problem.
Homepage Featured
Minnesota man charged with smuggling turtles in packages marked as toys
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Details scant in grand jury indictment regarding attempt to illegally ship 38 box turtles to Hong Kong.
Birds
Piping plovers return to Lake Erie
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A single pair of the shorebirds nested along the lake last summer for the first time in 60 years. They’re an encouragement to the wildlife managers who are reclaiming the plover’s old habitat.