What’s the best way to deliver environmental education?

Try getting students out of the classroom.

The demand for fresh, local produce has boosted a statewide uptick in the number of Michigan farmers markets.

And a state grant program aims at ensuring low-income communities don’t miss out.

Can lack of ice affect both the economy and ecology of the Great Lakes?
Getting a handle on that is difficult when studying one of the most dangerous times to be on them.

Environmental advocates urge legislators to support the federal mercury and air toxic standards, but the electric utility industry say that would create a huge burden.

Environmental experts are urging property owners to get rid of lakefront lawns and stone breakwalls in favor of a new approach to landscaping.

Few need help.

Good intentions could spread disease.

Or lead to their death.

Supporters say the practice creates jobs and improves the economy. Critics say that if not properly regulated it threatens groundwater, the source of drinking water for half of the state’s population.

Alright, sturgeon … they made your bed, now spawn in it.

Michigan organizations and agencies are building nine rock reefs in the Middle Channel of the St. Clair River to bolster native fish spawning and restore habitat.

The Eagle Project mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is facing opposition from the local Native American community which says the mine is being blasted directly into a sacred site.

The Chicago Tribune recently reported an obituary of sorts on the death of facts. Here’s a regional spin on that observation.