Category: Michigan
How many cigarette butts are littering your local beach?
Cigarette butts are one of the most common kind of plastic pollution found on Great Lakes beaches.
As mussels ravage Great Lakes whitefish, Lake Superior survives â for now
Chemistry, cold water and isolation make it hard for invasive mussels to get a foothold in the Big Lake. But a spate of recent outbreaks from Isle Royale to Canadaâs Nipigon Bay have scientists unnerved….
Michiganâs whitefish crisis: Your questions answered
If whitefish are in such dire straits, why is it still legal to fish them? And why canât humans just eat all the mussels that are causing the whitefish collapse? Bridge Michigan has answers….
10 years after Michigan took over Belle Isle, Detroit takes stock
A decade after the state takeover and $144 million in improvements, Detroiters are weighing whatâs been gained, and whatâs been lost, on the cityâs river island….
Gretchen Whitmer appeals federal aid denials for northern Michigan ice storm
Federal officials should approve disaster aid for individual homeowners and utilities in the wake of a March ice storm that rocked northern Michigan, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wrote in an appeal to FEMA officials this week….