Environment Michigan

While the recent drought really took its toll on many crops, the Michigan Christmas tree outlook is very good.

A federal judge agreed with the groups that a local fruit processor is polluting groundwater, a wetland and a creek that connect to Elk Lake.

The release follows years of planning and months spent carefully raising the fish, from which the City of Grayling got its name.

For the last 30 years, the Cadillac Area Land Conservancy has worked to protect and preserve land across the state of Michigan. The conservancy partners with landowners to preserve their land for future generations. The nonprofit provides landowners with the resources they need to identify the value of their land and protect it.

Michigan has far to go to meet net zero carbon emissions, but progress is being made. Researchers say we need to look farther ahead and prepare now for the technical challenges that must be overcome.

One has funding delayed on nearly half its projects.

Three northwest Michigan men, Kwin Morris, Jeff Guy and Joe Lorenz of Stand Up For Great Lakes, have traversed all five Great Lakes on paddle boards. Lake Ontario proved to be the toughest and filmed every trial along the way in the new film: Crossing Ontario.

Baby boomers are part of a "silver tsunami" of retirements sweeping across the nation's drinking water and wastewater systems.

After searching for a buyer for over a year, the owners announced the permanent shutdown of Tahquamenon Falls Riverboat Tours three years before centennial anniversary.

A new bill in the U.S. House of Representatives calls on the federal government to create a high-resolution map of all five lakebeds.