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Cheryl Porter’s vision for the future of water
With 28 years of experience in the water sector, Cheryl Porter shares her inspiring journey from junior chemist in Detroit to leading the American Water Works Association.
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Michigan advocates hail ‘groundbreaking’ settlement to civil rights complaint over hazardous waste facility
New requirements to consider cumulative impacts in hazardous waste facility licensing could represent a shift in state permitting practices.
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Foraged Fruit and Nuts: Wild Apples & Abundant Acorns
Autumn brings with it a bounty of fruits and nuts that often go unnoticed in our modern culinary landscape. Among the most abundant and overlooked are acorns and wild apples.
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Great Lakes Moment: Ten natural wonders of The Great Lakes Way
Get your bicycle or kayak ready and consider adding these close-to-home natural wonders to your Great Lakes adventure bucket list.
Points North: A Natural Ending
Peter Quakenbush’s dream is to create a conservation burial forest – a place that would both preserve the woods and give people the option to be buried in nature. But not everyone is on board with that idea.
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‘These are not your lands to give away’: 6 First Nations take Ontario to court over mining law
Indigenous communities in Ontario are flooded with mining claims that chip away at their territories. It’s a “racist, colonialist” system, the lawyer leading a new court case said.
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Nibi Chronicles: A conversation about Ojibwe history in Fur Trade Nation
On Carl Gawboy’s new book Fur Trade Nation: An Ojibwe’s Graphic History and how it’s “a field guide to the Ojibwe.”
Americans love nature but don’t feel empowered to protect it, new research shows
New research shows that Americans have positive feelings toward nature but also detects strong undertones of longing, guilt and worry.
Southeast Michigan facility will soon house waste from the Manhattan Project
A southeast Michigan waste disposal site will soon be home to nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop an atomic bomb.