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Michigan could save billions of dollars if the state’s children weren’t made sick by toxic chemicals, according to a recent report by the Michigan Network for Children’s Environmental Health.
Each fall hundreds of thousands of monarch butterflies migrate south for the winter. They’re found all over the country but are often spotted in Great Lakes states.
And you can help record their progress.
Cameron Davis, senior adviser on Great Lakes issues to the EPA’s administrator, was on Michigan State University’s campus Friday to announce Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants awarded in Michigan.
More than half of the bald eagle nests surveyed in Lake Superior’s Apostle Islands contained birds that exceeded acceptable levels of a contaminant long since banned from use.
Mike Link and Kate Crowley, a couple from Willow River, Minn., know the answer to a variation on an old joke: How do you walk around Lake Superior?
One step at a time.
Deer mice once crossed the Great Lakes and into Michigan’s freshly glacier-free landscape. That surprising feat is unlikely to be repeated as a warming climate pushes them north to the tip of Michigan’s mitten. With animation.
The Department of Natural Resources and Environment has issued its final proposal to impose fishing restrictions on 73 more miles of river, but not without controversy.
There are 75 places where you could buy local honey in Michigan, 26 places to get local goat cheese and milk in Wisconsin, and 22 places to buy Grassfed Beef in Ohio, according to a mashup on Localharvest.org.
With the decline of the automotive industry and Michigan’s economy taking a turn for the worse, workers and businesses are looking for ways to turn things around – and they may have found one answer: Wind energy.
But wind energy isn’t an easy industry to get into because it’s extremely competitive.
Brian Clinsky didn’t want to call the police on the produce-stealing grandmother.
But the last time she stole was the final straw. The woman had been taking produce regularly from the Muskegon garden.