Climate change
Commentary: Suburban ponds threaten dog walkers and water quality
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Suburban ponds are experiencing ecosystem changes due to fertilizers, lawn treatments, and human waste and population. Climate change could also play a role.
Commentary
April: Hidden Migrations
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Animal migrations are among nature’s most stirring spectacles. So why do so few of us know about spectacular migrations that happen every spring, right in our own back yards? Because these are migrations of fish, out of sight beneath the surfaces of our rivers and streams.
Commentary
March: Stormy Weather
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March is a big time for underwater storms. The combination of melting snow, saturated soils, and rain falling on frozen ground means that the most frequent and most severe floods typically occur in March here in Michigan. These floods may carry 100 or even 1000 times as much water as the stream carries on a dry summer day.
Echo
January: The Kingdom of Ice
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You might deny being part of the Kingdom of Ice – Michigan is more about summer sunshine than it is about ice – but our language betrays us. So does the state’s geology.
Commentary
Commentary: Mourning roadkill
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Michigan is number eight in a national ranking by the State Farm insurance company of where drivers are most likely to collide with an animal.
Land
Commentary: We need wild places in urban spaces
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Are pockets of untrimmed greenery in urban spaces also wild spaces?
Catch of the Day
Frank Kelley had a lasting impact on Michigan’s environment – and on me
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Longtime Michigan crusader earned his nickname.
