Great Lakes Now Featured Articles About Detroit
Great Lakes Moment: Students help save sturgeon
Sturgeon for Tomorrow and a team of U.S. and Canadian fishery biologists have been working together to help reintroduce lake sturgeon in Great Lakes tributaries where they once thrived.
Detroit and Toronto among Time Magazine’s “50 Greatest Places”
Two Great Lakes cities are among an international news magazine’s top destinations for 2022. How many have you been to?

When your home is filled with hazards, what can you do?
Great Lakes Now put together a list of small, accessible actions people can take to improve their housing situations and mitigate some of the impacts of lead, climate change and more.

Great Lakes Moment: The imperiled mussels of the Detroit River
Researchers see hope still for the Detroit River’s native freshwater mussels and say remediation efforts could be a big opportunity for the endangered mussels.

See where you can borrow free camping gear in Michigan
Dreaming of a campout, but can’t afford a tent? Grand Rapids and Detroit are launching gear libraries to break down economic barriers to the Great Outdoors.

Mapping the Great Lakes: How old are our cities?
Aging housing is prevalent all around the region, but in some cities the old infrastructure lingers more than in others.

Michigan Gov. Whitmer’s plan needs to move from aspiration to action, says Detroit climate advocate
A priority shift is needed on federal and state levels to achieve climate goals, Michelle Martinez told Great Lakes Now.

As agencies seek more environmental justice data, longtime residents are skeptical
Environmental regulators hope new data-driven tools will help identify hotspots and drive environmental justice. Some activists, who’ve been fighting polluters for decades, have doubts that more information will make a difference.

COVID hits Buttigieg, others who attended Michigan event
At least 15 people who attended a public affairs conference last week on Michigan’s Mackinac Island have tested positive for COVID-19, including U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

“Thank God that smell is gone”: Detroit incinerator to be demolished after decades of complaints
A Detroit trash incinerator will be demolished after decades of complaints about air pollution and strong odors of rotten eggs and rotting garbage.

Great Lakes Moment: Rewilding Metropolitan Detroit
Otters, turkey, walleye and more have all made comebacks in the past few decades, thanks to the rewilding efforts of various organizations.

Detroit City Council wants to make Detroit River a World Heritage Site
Local activists from Detroit and Windsor are pushing The United Nations Education and Scientific Cultural Organization to recognize the local landmark.

Great Lakes Moment: Similarities between the Don and Rouge rivers, and one big difference
In this month’s column, John Hartig discusses the lessons that can be learned from the naturalization of Toronto’s Don River.