Great Lakes Updates

Microplastics are showing up in sediments as well as water.

If one duckweed lands where a bird relieves itself, it’s capable of eventually creating a dense mat of duckweeds where there were none before.

It has harmed native fish populations elsewhere.

It's hard to count what you can't see.

A warming climate has contributed to higher maize yields in Michigan and other Corn Belt states, a new study has found.

Michigan produces the third most Christmas trees in the nation and no state grows more varieties, according to tree experts.

Climate change is altering America’s first national park so quickly that plants and animals may not be able to adapt.

Motherless twins. A magical manatee. A group of acclaimed writers — all from or living in Florida — create an exquisite corpse through America’s weirdest state.

Islands of greenery, called refugia, survive even the worst fires, sheltering species and renewing charred landscapes.

Nootka lupine, introduced in the 1970s to control soil erosion, has spread wildly, threatening native species. But many adore its purplish blue flowers.