Great Lakes Updates

As the first year of hemp farming in Michigan ends, industry leaders say they hope to make plastics and wood from the plant’s fiber -- once they hurdle the obstacles to market expansion.

The endangered Poweshiek skipperling butterfly, is now known to survive in the wild in only two places on earth: Michigan and Manitoba.

Great Lakes colleges fared well on recent separate lists from the Sierra Club magazine and the Princeton Review that ranked the top green colleges of the United States and Canada.

Households that eat family-style meals together at the table with the TV off may have healthier diets than families who don’t.

The heavy rain in recent years has left farmers with dangerously high levels of stress.

A cancer afflicting mussels originated off the Pacific coast of Canada, but then crossed into other species in Europe and South America.

Grasses that have encroached from other regions can make wildfires more frequent, according to a new study. 

New rules will weaken the landmark law intended to save plants and animals on the brink.

The waterwheel lives a double life: facing extinction in its native habitat even as it creeps into places where it doesn’t belong.

Researchers studying trees at Green-Wood Cemetery found a nonnative beetle previously unknown to science.