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Permitting delays have tacked on another year-and-a-half to the planned Line 5 tunnel project under the Straits of Mackinac.
The Great Lakes offer abundant opportunities to visit “blue spaces” that help lower stress and improve overall mental health.
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These young researchers are participating in citizen science — something the National Parks Service defines as the public voluntarily helping to conduct scientific research.
Ten restoration projects have been proposed, including wetlands and other wildlife habitats.
A team of ducks leads us to where the invasive round gobies are overwintering and along the way schools us in how to find fish underwater.
The Anderson Collection’s oldest pieces are from the Clovis period of human history—delicately shaped points made of jasper or Hudson Bay lowland chert.
Concern over EV affordability for lower income groups and who will bear the burden of the environmental risk that comes with EV production.