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Millions of birds in flight as peak migration season approaches
3+ hour, 5+ min ago (375+ words) As peak bird migration season approaches, people can track their movement through Michigan and take some steps to help them along their way. Cornell University's Bird Cast Migration dashboard tracks bird movement. According to its data, as of April 21 there…...
Rare Michigan prairie is one step closer to being protected
4+ week, 1+ day ago (428+ words) A rare lakeplain prairie spanning 440 acres in southeast Michigan is one step closer to being preserved, according to environmental groups trying to save it. The Save Sibley Prairie Coalition said it has until the end of the year to raise…...
2025 Year in Review: The best of the Environment Report
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (152+ words) From an intern project on the bottle bill to the effects of the Gelman Plume in Ann Arbor, we've done a lot of environmental reporting this year. As it's the end of the year, let's take a look at some…...
Invasive sea lamprey declining as control efforts in the Great Lakes resume
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (430+ words) The number of invasive sea lamprey in the Great Lakes has gone down after regular control and treatment efforts resumed. According to a report from the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, surveys of the lamprey show their numbers have returned to…...
As hundreds of millions of birds head south, the invisible danger is glass
6+ mon, 5+ day ago (1565+ words) Just after dawn in Washington, D. C. , Stephanie Haley is walking a familiar downtown route, scanning the sidewalk next to office buildings. There, huddled on the ground, is a motionless olive-green songbird. It's an Acadian flycatcher, no doubt on its way to…...
To save its rare birds, New Zealand is relying on a nation of backyard trappers
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (1077+ words) Like many student volunteers, the kids in the group Town Belt Kaitiaki look after their neighborhood parks " planting trees, weeding, clearing paths. But they also do something less common: exterminating animals. "So we have a possum trap " the white ones…...
To save its unique and rare birds, New Zealand is turning to AI and genetic research
7+ mon, 4+ day ago (1528+ words) New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds. There's the k'k'p, a mossy-green parrot weighing up to…...
By listening to these birds for decades, scientists track signs of a changing forest
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (1079+ words) Miranda Zammarelli hikes into the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in central New Hampshire, pausing when she sees a tree with a pink ribbon wrapped around its trunk. Zammarelli, a behavioral ecologist and Ph D candidate at Dartmouth College, knows that…...
Mooz the dog is helping scientists in Michigan study threatened turtles
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (957+ words) The Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians' Natural Resources Department has been working to conserve the threatened wood turtle. Their top team member is Mooz, a nine-year-old Labradoodle who has been helping his owner, Bill Parsons, find wood turtles…...
Ted Nugent calls DNR conservation officers "jack-booted thugs" in testimony
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (318+ words) Ted Nugent stood center stage, playing to his audience. But this stage was not the usual haunt for the 70s rock star. This was a hearing before a joint Michigan state House committee on "Weaponization of State Government." Nugent was among…...