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AuthorsBeaches, Boating, Paddle Sports and SailingDetroitDetroit RiverFeature DetroitFeature HomepageJohn HartigLatest NewsMichiganNewsRecreation and TourismRegionGreat Lakes Moment: Detroit’s new Ralph Wilson Park will provide habitats for a healthy ecosystem
-For over 100 years, the Detroit River was perceived as a working waterway that supported industry and commerce. As such, its shoreline was progressively hardened with concrete seawalls, steel sheet piling, or broken concrete.
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Climate change is harming Michigan hunting and fishing, groups warn lawmakers
-Michigan’s wild places are under threat as warmer temperatures cause species to migrate northward and rivers to overheat. Advocates called for more resources to protect Michigan’s fish and game from those changes.
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Michigan Legislature tackles ambitious climate legislation. How far will it go?
-Gov. Gretchen Whitmer released the MI Healthy Climate Plan last year. Now the state legislature is trying to take those goals and turn them into law.
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Historians race to find Great Lakes shipwrecks before quagga mussels destroy the sites
-An invasive mussel is destroying shipwrecks deep in the depths of the lakes, forcing archeologists and amateur historians into a race against time to find as many sites as they can.
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Waves of Change: Meet community organizer Justin Onwenu
-Waves of Change is a new online interview series highlighting the diverse faces and perspectives shaping the environmental justice movement throughout the Great Lakes region.
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Michigan toddlers to receive universal lead testing under new legislation
-Detroit kids test positive for lead at triple the state’s rate, but few get tested. A new universal testing law means more exposed kids may get help.
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AuthorsDetroitDetroit RiverFeature DetroitFeature HomepageGary WilsonLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeRegionGreat Lakes EPA office reaffirms 2030 cleanup goal for Detroit River, other contaminated sites
-Activist coalition says Michigan funding urgently needed for the Detroit River, ongoing pollution from chemical plant threatens progress.
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AuthorsFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsI Speak for the FishKathy JohnsonLatest NewsMichiganNewsI Speak for the Fish: Mesmerized by minnows
-Dazzling metallic flashes radiated around me with each twist and turn of their slender bodies. I was completely immobilized and mesmerized by the splendor.
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CollaborationFish, Birds and AnimalsLatest NewsMichiganNewsPoints NorthScience, Technology, ResearchPoints North: We Got Jellyfish!
-Freshwater jellyfish have been in inland lakes and rivers throughout the Great Lakes region since 1933. But a century after their discovery, we still don’t know much about the elusive creatures. A team of student scientists is trying to change that.
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What do Michigan rattlers chow down?
-Massasaugas strongly prefer small mammal prey, yet individuals occasionally consume other prey, including amphibians, reptiles and birds.
