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Opinion | With permits pending, unions back the Great Lakes Tunnel
The Tunnel will protect the environment, our energy independence and family budgets. But it also means jobs, and more than just those itâll create during construction….
Michigan high schoolers take statewide road trip in solar-powered car
By Clara Lincolnhol
On a cool and cloudy summer day, Michigan high school students recently drove the car they’d been engineering for months around the block and parked it in front of the state Capitol. The three wheeled, sharply angled, gray, white and black camo-print car seats two people and is powered by solar-charged batteries.
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Group underscores need for managing groundwater better in Great Lakes region
Data centers, critical mineral mining, and agricultural irrigation threaten to deplete the water-rich Great Lakes region of groundwater, a new report issued Wednesday by a major environmental group asserts.
Ann Arbor’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab faces potential shutdown
The Trump administration’s budget proposal calls for a $1.7 billion reduction in NOAA’s budget and directs the complete elimination of the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. This jeopardizes the existence […]
Fire was part of the history of our land. Then we took it away. Can it begin again?
Researchers used tree ring data and Indigenous oral histories to reconstruct the fire history of the Great Lakes region. Reintroducing controlled burns, often following Indigenous practices, is suggested as a […]