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Are the Great Lakes prepared for a smoky future?

by Great Lakes Now July 8, 2024

As climate change makes wildfires more common, work needs to be done to prepare people and communities for a smokier future.

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Beaver Island takes early steps to test wave energy in its waters

by Interlochen Public Radio July 8, 2024

Wave energy converters use the movement of the water to generate electricity. A research team from the University of Michigan will spend the next couple years developing a prototype to install in the waters off the island.

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This SCOTUS decision may make it harder to protect Michigan air and water

by Planet Detroit July 8, 2024

The Chevron decision could jeopardize federal policies addressing PFAS pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Remote-controlled robots cleaning up small Michigan beaches

by Michigan Public July 5, 2024

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is using a couple of roving robots on tracks to sift through the sand on beaches, cleaning up debris.

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Environmentalists appeal Michigan regulators’ approval of pipeline tunnel project

by The Associated Press July 3, 2024

Environmentalists are challenging Michigan regulators’ decision to approve encasing part of an aging Enbridge Energy oil pipeline that runs beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes, arguing that they failed to properly consider alternatives that would minimize climate impacts.

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A Symbol of Survival: Red Pine Peels and Ojibwe Canoe Factories

by Staci Lola Drouillard, Great Lakes Now July 3, 2024November 8, 2025

Anthropologists discovered trees harvested for canoes during the fur trade formed a healing lobe like a scar. A symbol of survival — for the trees and for the Indigenous people of the border country.

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How much can wetland restoration reduce farm fertilizers getting into Lake Erie?

by Michigan Public July 2, 2024November 8, 2025

Michigan has a program to restore a large wetland area to reduce fertilizer runoff from getting into Lake Erie because it feeds toxic cyanobacterial blooms that spread in the western basin.