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LANSING –The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality announced that it will allow the city of Kalamazoo to reduce the frequency of monitoring for per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at its …
ANN ARBOR — Western Lake Erie’s annual summer algal blooms are triggered, at least in part, by cyanobacteria cells that survive the winter in lake-bottom sediments, then emerge in the …
ANN ARBOR – University of Michigan researchers are part of a new federally funded effort to understand and prevent toxic algal blooms that plague portions of the Great Lakes and …
ANN ARBOR — The water crisis in Flint is the most egregious example of environmental injustice in recent U.S. history, according to a founder of the movement who has studied …
EAST LANSING — More than 1.5 million Michigan residents and potentially more than hundreds of sites nationwide – and counting – have PFAS-tainted water. Now, the Michigan State University-Fraunhofer USA …
SOUTHFIELD – Stormwater runoff management may sound boring. But how does half a billion dollars sound? You might say that makes stormwater anything but a dry subject. Attendees at a …
ANN ARBOR — Great Lakes researchers are establishing an experimental network of air-pressure sensors around lakes Michigan and Erie to see if they can detect potentially harmful “meteotsunami” waves. Funding …
ANN ARBOR — University of Michigan researchers and their partners predict that western Lake Erie will experience a harmful algal bloom of cyanobacteria this summer that is smaller than in …
HOUGHTON — Synthetic chemicals are ever-present in modern life — in our medications, cosmetics and clothing — but what happens to them when they enter our municipal water supplies? We …
TRAVERSE CITY — Next month, three men — Joe Lorenz, Kwin Morris and Jeff Guy — will attempt something that has never been done: to paddleboard across Lake Superior, the …