Author: Lucknow Sentinel
On the importance of dark sky parks
Summer is just around the corner, and for many in the Great Lakes region, the coming season is synonymous with weekends at the beach, camping trips and — if you’re lucky — stargazing. There are many places in the Great Lakes where the skies are dark enough to enjoy the stars and planets overhead, but specific recognition for such places varies by state.
EPA nixes PFAS grants, teases new strategy
Catch the latest updates on what’s happening with PFAS in the Great Lakes region. Check back for more PFAS news roundups every other week on our website.
On April 15, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff were told to cancel tens of millions of dollars worth of pending and active grants.
Visiting the least visited national park
For National Park week, Ian Solomon recounts his time visiting Isle Royale for a much-loved episode of Great Lakes Now.
More Fire, More Water
Prescribed burns, intense rainfall and a look at the snow mobile industry.
How the Great Lakes region inspired the first Earth Day
On the heels of the anti-war protests that were taking 1960s college campuses by storm, Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson was inspired to use that same momentum to create a protest so large that it would create an environmental movement.
An estimated 20 million Americans gathered on what would become known as Earth Day, with thousands of college campuses and high schools across the country engaged in the action.