"When can we eat the fish?” That’s what the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula wants to know. Officials in Michigan issue fish advisories . Those recommend limits on how much fish we eat because of toxic chemicals that can build up in fish. Indigenous communities in the Great Lakes are at greater risk because they eat a lot of fish. For years, there was a focus on trying to get tribes to follow the advisories more closely. But some people argue that’s the wrong way to

If you eat wild caught fish from Michigan, you might know about fish consumption advisories . They’re recommended limits on safe amounts of fish to eat, and they're necessary because toxic chemicals build up in fish in the Great Lakes and inland lakes and streams.

Invasive species tend to do well in new places, and they can push out native species. There’s an assumption that they do better in the same kind of environment as the country they came from. But scientists have found that some invasive plants can change and adapt to new continents and new climates.

People in northern Kent County have been dealing with the recent discovery of groundwater contamination for the past several months. Some residents still have questions about what caused it and how it could affect their health.

We’ve heard a lot about honeybees and how important they are as pollinators. But bumblebees pollinate wildflowers and crops, too, and some kinds of bumblebees are in trouble.

Because of the Flint water crisis, several Michigan cities are making long term plans to replace old lead water pipes that connect homes to the water main. That is good for public health, but well-meaning municipal water operators can actually make lead exposure worse if they’re not careful. There’s a mix of lead and copper pipes buried near the corner of Trinity and Florence in a neighborhood on Detroit’s northwest side. When I visited a month ago the block was lined with nice, two story brick

One of the things Flint’s water operators got in trouble for was falsifying records; for saying the city was testing homes at the highest risk of having elevated lead levels when it was not. But records obtained by Michigan Radio show Flint is not the only city in the state that tested the wrong homes over the years and potentially underestimated lead in water. The biggest culprit for high lead in tap water is the lead water pipes that connect a house to the water main. That’s why cities are

There are several federal agencies in charge of trying to control Asian carp, and they just came out with their latest report to Congress on how those efforts are going.

The reliability of our power supply is vulnerable to climate change. But the grid can be made more adaptable. Those are the conclusions of a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change .

For generations, Native Americans in the northern Great Lakes have harvested wild rice. It's an important food source. For some it's a way to make a little extra cash. And it's a cultural touchstone that tribal members are trying to pass on to younger generations.