Echo
Great Lakes ports open their docks for cruise lines
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Cruise line tourism is growing in the Great Lakes as port cities navigate border regulations.
Invaders
Spiny water flea clouds lake and its future
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The harm it causes one Wisconsin lake could take millions of dollars to reverse. That has implications for lakes throughout the region.
Wildlife
Buffs boost black swallowtail as best bet for state butterfly
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Michigan is one of just three states without an official insect or butterfly.
Water
Blame, deny, repeat; EPA’s pitiful testimony on Flint makes even Snyder look good
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Politics trump citizens of Flint as EPA administrator refuses to accept any responsibility for water mess.
Art
Below the surface: Great Lakes invaders
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A new book explores the uphill battle against the worst Great Lakes invaders and praises the people who research them.
Water
Can the way you brush your teeth really save otters?
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There’s a lot of water in the Great Lakes. Why be frugal with it?
Commentary
Public Health Crisis? Nah.
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That deluge of state pronouncements, announcements, advisories and denouncements about Flint water reflects a misperception that better PR is — if not a solution to the poisoning of a city, at least a priority deflection of too-slow-to-act criticisms and of the unfavorable and unwelcome international media attention the crisis continues to draw.
Climate change
Climate change threatens rare Minnesota orchid
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A new climate model predicts future environmental pressures on a rare orchid called the small white lady’s slipper.
Echo
Conservation criminology program focuses on environmental injustices
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Kirk Heinze speaks with Meredith Gore on the new conservation criminology program at MSU.
Energy
Michigan company looks to halve offshore wind costs
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Company uses physics of thunderstorms to summon energy out of air.