Invasive Asian carp may have gotten past the last line of defense to keep them out of Lake Michigan. DNA samples from water indicate both big head and silver carp have gotten beyond a new $9 million electric fish barrier in the Chicago Ship Canal...
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Randy Udall says the rapid expansion of oil dependence cannot go on for another 50 years in the United States. He shares stories of ingenuity in the face of oil depletion. Also, Bryn Davidson talks about planning resilient cities.
Traverse City area residents have joined an International Day of Climate Action, with events around the world to draw attention to the dangers associated with global...
By Bob Allen
It looks like spraying an invasive grass won't happen around much of Grand Traverse Bay this year. Federal funds to treat phragmites have been hung-up along with other...
By Bob Allen
Benzie County is expected to phase-out its planning and zoning departments by the end of the year. It's a cost-cutting move...
The Drain Commissioner in Cheboygan County says Flint shouldn't be allowed to put a new pipeline into Lake Huron to draw drinking water. He says there are many questions left that need to be answered about the project.
A month after the Exxon Valdez wrecked Alaska's Prince William Sound, a fisheries biologist predicted a tiny mussel recently found in Lake St. Clair would cause a worse ecological catastrophe for the Great Lakes. Two decades...
Traverse City may ban cigarettes and other tobacco products at city beaches, playgrounds and all parkland.
Monday night the City Commission talked about ...
