Solutions
First-ever transit service hovercraft in North America plans to hit the water in summer 2023
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More modern versions have switched to a more conventional diesel engine, much quieter and much more fuel- efficient.
Solutions
Four electric buses will hit University of Michigan’s campus next summer
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Power is supplied to the electric motor very quickly which gives the electric bus high performance and rapid acceleration.
Solutions
New bikeshare in Ithaca, New York hops on community biking trend
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The Center for Community Transportation launched a new bikeshare service in November, Ithaca Bikeshare.
Art
Northern Ontario art form pays homage to Native roots
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Heavily symbolic, Woodland art uses the vibrancy of primary colors to convey the ideology behind Ojibwe culture in the forms of animals, plants, people and even the land.
Land
‘Adopt-a-Forest’ program encourages citizens to clean up public land
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The Adopt-a-Forest program is volunteer-driven and helps people engage with the outdoors and encourages them to keep public lands clean, the state Department of Natural Resources says.
Echo
Researchers find relationship between invasive zebra mussels, toxic algae
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Scientists from the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station first noticed an invasive population of zebra mussels in Gull Lake in the mid-1990s.
Energy
Offshore wind could provide double the electricity Michiganders used in 2019
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Coastal wind is a strong, consistent power source and Michigan’s more than 3,000 miles of coast could provide double the electricity residents used from all sources in 2019.
Climate
Podcast: Climate change and winter sports
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Great Lakes Echo reporter Claire Moore chats with University of Waterloo, Ontario, professor Daniel Scott about how climate change may affect skiing and other winter sports in eastern North America in the coming decades.
Echo
Hear crickets chirping in the evening? Use them to tell the temperature
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The steady sound of crickets chirping in the evening is a staple of a midwest summer. And with some simple math that chirping can be utilized to tell the temperature.
Echo
Too many dams, too little money
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A combination of heavy rain and aging infrastructure led to the collapse of the Edenville and Sanford dams along the Tittabawassee River in Midland County, Michigan on May 19. The state can only afford to address a fraction of those dams with the current fund.