MARQUETTE — The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is placing quarantines around Michigan to contain an outbreak of invasive species, mainly by way of transporting firewood infested with pests. Laurel Downs, the forest health conservation coordinator for the national Don’t ...

A wintry wind blew the snow in, and it piled up rather quickly. I had been busy working in my study/studio and had my head down with my nose to the grindstone. When I am concentrating on something, time whips by. I only noticed the weather outside when I would make occasional trips to the ...

LANSING — A new Government Accountability Office study of hazardous waste facilities found them at risk of damage from climate-related events such as flooding and hurricanes. Some are in the six-state Great Lakes region, including ones near southern Lake Michigan. According to the ...

Stepping out to the wet street that morning, the capitol was covered in a feathery veil of snowflakes, the lights shining in a yellowish glow up high around the dome, the colorful flags folding and unfolding in the wind. At the Ottawa corner, the pines and other trees decorating the stately ...

LANSING — It’s been one year since Michigan Democrats introduced legislation that would significantly change the state’s environmental regulations. But those bills are stuck in committee. Election distractions, negotiation, and a slim Democratic majority in the state House have kept ...

I got to the dirt road not long after the rain had stopped falling. The air was still warm though the skies were full of low-hanging gray-white clouds that socked the scene in with near foggy conditions. I opened the car door and stuck my boots into the wet gravel and began walking. I could ...