“To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.” – Vanna Bonta “We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity.” – Paulo Coelho Some recent weather fronts ...

LANSING — An invasive insect increasingly threatens one of the most important trees in Michigan and elsewhere in the Great Lakes region for storing the carbon that causes global warming. Researchers have found that eastern hemlocks felled by the invasive woolly adelgid could emit 4.5 tons ...

As the metal storm door clicked shut behind me, I almost immediately sensed the mildness of the air meeting my face, warm for a late autumn’s evening. The wind was dead or at least fast asleep. Soft glowing light shone through the windows of the living room, diffused by curtains that hung ...

“The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessing that continue to surround us.” . ” — James E. Faust Plenty of birds in the Lower Harbor in Marquette have made the new pier a blessing to birders. There has been a wide variety of waterfowl from ducks to grebes. The new pier ...

LANSING — A deer with chronic wasting disease has been found in Ogemaw County — a county that had never seen the disease before. And that worries the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Showing zombielike symptoms, the deer was in its final stages of the sickness: drooling, skinny ...

With the spirit of thanksgiving blowing across the landscape this week, pushed by a cold Canadian wind, I was reminded recently of something I have been truly thankful for over many years, though it’s not something I think about in detail too often. My recollections began when talking with ...