Lester Graham

Climate change is already affecting the Great Lakes. One group is urging the Great Lakes states and Canadian provinces to coordinate their efforts to make the Great Lakes basin more resilient to those changes.Climate change contributed to the rapid rise in Great Lakes water levels a few years ago. Combined with more frequent and intense storms — also a result of climate change — they caused record flooding in 2017 and 2019 in some parts of the Great Lakes region. Homes and property were damaged.

Economists forecast that Michigan's population will increase by about a half-million people over the next three decades, with growth concentrated in certain areas.Gabriel Ehrlich heads up the group of economists at the University of Michigan. He says growth is expected in a band of counties from the suburban Detroit area, west through Lansing and on to the Grand Rapids region. Ehrlich and other economists say there also will be population growth in the Traverse City to Petoskey region.

Economists at the University of Michigan forecast Michigan’s economy is strong enough to manage a mild recession on the horizon.

USEPA has enhanced its website to better reveal the process of determining risk assessments of new chemicals

The $1.7 trillion dollar spending plan recently passed by Congress includes money for a number of environmental issues.

A new study of bees reveals natural habitat can affect whether bees pass on viral infections.

Economists at the University of Michigan expect Michigan's population to grow by a half-million over three decades.

A newly published study suggests a plume of contaminated groundwater could eventually get into home basements in parts of Ann Arbor.The research by University of Michigan scientists suggests that a current plume of the chemical 1,4-dioxane in groundwater will get closer to the surface.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is expected to finalize a Wolf Management Plan before the end of the year.

Hunting, fishing, and birding groups want Michigan to invest $30 million to create wetlands.