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Americans love nature but don’t feel empowered to protect it, new research shows | Great Lakes Now

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Americans love nature but don’t feel empowered to protect it, new research shows

By Jessica Eise, Indiana University

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Climate change has been in the news for more than 40 years. It’s typically covered as a scientific or political issue. However, social scientists like me have found that feelings and values are what drive people toward broad, collective change – not charts, graphs or images.

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Owen Sound Sun Times

Former OSDSS student studying forestry named Kirk Award winner

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An Owen Sound student heading to Lakehead University to study forestry is the winner of this year’s Malcolm Kirk Environmental Award from the Grey Sauble Conservation Foundation. Hayden Wardell, a former Owen Sound District Secondary School student, will start a bachelor of science degree program in forestry at Lakehead University this fall. Each year the […]

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Michigan aims to tackle clean energy goals in Upper Peninsula | Great Lakes Now

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Michigan aims to tackle clean energy goals in Upper Peninsula

By Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio

This coverage is made possible through a partnership with IPR and Grist, a nonprofit independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.

Michigan’s new climate laws require utilities to transition to entirely “clean” electricity sources by 2040.

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London Free Press

Upper Thames seeks citizens to help with rain tracking: ‘Community science’

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Some volunteers have trickled in, but local conservation officials are seeking more participants to help  gather regional precipitation data. The Upper Thames River Conservation Authority – whose district including London covers about 3,500 square kilometres – is looking for people, particularly those living near St. Marys and the northern part of the watershed, to participate […]

Great Lakes Echo

A New Paradigm: How climate change is shaping mental landscapes in the Great Lakes | Great Lakes Echo

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By Mia Litzenberg In a weekly Good Grief Network session held on July 25, time and space were created for participants to reflect on their feelings of uncertainty in an unstable environment over Zoom. Trained facilitators kept time for each participant to speak while the other participants bore witness as listeners. The overarching rule was […]

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Great Lakes Now

Advocates urge Hogsett to save Indy’s at-risk urban forests | Great Lakes Now

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Advocates urge Hogsett to save Indy’s at-risk urban forests

By Peter Blanchard, Mirror Indy

Mirror Indy is a part of Free Press Indiana, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to ensuring all Hoosiers have access to the news and information they need.

Despite concerns from environmentalists — and support from 23 city-county councilors — Mayor Joe Hogsett is so far declining to allocate funds in the 2025 city budget to acquire urban forests for conservation.

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Great Lakes Echo

Michigan is part of multi-state effort to track chronic wasting disease | Great Lakes Echo

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By Elinor Epperson Researchers at Cornell University are studying whether machine learning can help states and tribes predict the spread of a dangerous disease plaguing North American deer. A recent study done in partnership with Michigan State University showed that machine learning could calculate where chronic wasting disease will spread at the county level. That […]

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