Environment

The Land Conservancy of West Michigan hosts event to collect and spread native grassland species across more than seven acres.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has commissioned a new 66-foot, steel-hulled research vessel to monitor Lake Michigan fisheries and aquatic ecosystem.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer designated Sept. 21-25 as PFAS Awareness Week and urged Michiganders to "take steps to reduce their exposure to PFAS." MLive Reporter Garret Ellison fills Stateside in on where the state stands on PFAS contamination clean up.

A bird that only breeds in Michigan draws birders from all over. Find out how the state's habitat also plays a part in making it a birding hotspot.

Tree history in Ann Arbor is set to be highlighted on September 26, where sustainability and environmental stewardship is encouraged and discussed in a collaboration between the Hands-On Museum and the Ann Arbor Office of Sustainability and Innovation (OSI).

Yellowjackets are out in full force in Michigan in late summer and fall, and they love when we wear bright colors and perfume, and serve them sugary drinks and hamburgers.

Michigan State University and partners say they've brought the Poweshiek skipperling butterfly back from near extinction.

Invasive carp were detected in the Illinois River only 80 miles from Lake Michigan. The US Army Corp of Engineers ordered a stop-work order on a project to help stop the spread.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel plans to file a sixth request for rehearing with the United State’s Department of Energy over Consumers Energy’s J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant.

Algae can be used for sustainable products but there has to be a lot of it — enough biomass — to make that work. Researchers at Michigan State University say they have developed a way to increase growth.