Great Lakes Updates

By Indri Maulidar Capital News Service What’s orange, flies to Mexico every year and was recently proposed as a Michigan icon? It’s the monarch butterfly. Four Michigan senators recently introduced a bill to make the monarch butterfly Michigan’s state insect. The idea, pushed by a group of schoolchildren from West Bloomfield School District, has some […]

Recycling centers adapting to the loss of China as a market might take a look at what has been going on in Michigan’s Emmet County for decades.

Unique design helped vessel handle the wind and adjust its configuration to pass through canals.

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

Americans eat more meat on average than citizens of any other nation, but new survey findings show that plant-based meat products are winning fans across the US.

Isle Royale's abundant red squirrels were once considered a localized subspecies. But the latest DNA testing tells a different story.

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.