In rivers and groundwater, in human bloodstreams and products ranging from cosmetics to food packaging to carpets, researchers are increasingly finding “forever chemicals” that don’t break down naturally and are shown to cause myriad health issues.

GRAND RAPIDS — Baby turtles are growing stronger at John Ball Zoo as part of the Grand Rapids zoo’s partnership with two other local organizations to save eastern box turtles from population decreases.

Oil refineries are dumping massive amounts of toxic chemicals and heavy metals into the Great Lakes and the nation’s rivers with little, if any, oversight from government regulators, according to a new analysis that found some of the worst polluters are in the Chicago area.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden persuaded Democrats in Congress to provide hundreds of billions of dollars to fight climate change. Now comes another formidable task: enticing Americans to buy millions of electric cars, heat pumps, solar panels and more efficient appliances.

They’ve been pushed to the brink of extinction by dams, drought, extreme heat and even the flare of wildfires, but now California’s endangered winter-run Chinook salmon appear to be facing an entirely new threat — their own ravenous hunger for anchovies.

TRAVERSE CITY — As 2023 begins, the threat of PFAS contamination continues to be a point of concern in Michigan and beyond.

As the icy, bitter cold seeps into West Michigan, and folks hunker down in their homes and stay away from the beaches, the shorelines of Lake Michigan begin to stretch their legs a bit.

TRAVERSE CITY — Four Native American tribes have agreed with Michigan and federal officials on a revised fishing policy for parts of three of the Great Lakes, officials said Monday.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — President Joe Biden, speaking Friday at an annual international summit on climate change, urged world leaders to “double down” on their resolve to fight global warming, saying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reinforces the need to phase out fossil fuels.

Many factors go into effective fisheries management, including the valuable research data conducted each year by Michigan Department of Natural Resources research vessels on Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Saginaw Bay.

Once the world had hope that when nations got together they could stop climate change. Thirty years after leaders around the globe first got together to try, that hope has melted. So has 36 trillion tons of ice. The world has warmed by more than a degree and spewed a trillion tons of heat-tr…

When driving around the surrounding areas of Grand Haven and across greater West Michigan, it’s not unlikely that you’ll look out the car window and find yourself surrounded by fields of farmland. As far as the eye can see, lush crop fields will sway gently in the breeze while brightly color…

CHICAGO — If Illinois state Rep. Marcus Evans has his way, Chicago will enter the race to build the first offshore wind farm on the Great Lakes.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are less concerned now about how climate change might impact them personally — and about how their personal choices affect the climate — than they were three years ago, a new poll shows, even as a wide majority still believe climate change is happening.

CHICAGO — Monty and Rose, who achieved local fame in 2019 as the first federally endangered piping plovers to raise a family in Chicago in almost 60 years, are gone from the North Side beach where they spent three summers.

The Great Lakes region is enjoying another year of lower water levels and wider beaches.

Spongy moths – formerly known as gypsy moths – are appearing across West Michigan.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to Massachusetts on Wednesday to promote his efforts to combat climate change but will stop short of issuing an emergency declaration that would unlock federal resources to deal with the issue, according to a person familiar with the presiden…

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy has declared Tuesday to be an Action Day for elevated levels of ozone. Pollutants are expected to be in the "unhealthy for sensitive groups" range.

Volunteers are needed to help clean up the Grand Haven City Beach on Thursday evening.

In many of the states with the nation’s most aggressive climate goals, officials are investing millions of dollars to save the power source that was long the No. 1 target of many environmental activists: nuclear plants.

Lake Michigan is experiencing a much more severe seasonal alewife die-off than in previous years, but not here in the Tri-Cities.

A Grand Haven family in the midst of a Western road trip was forced to evacuate Yellowstone National Park on Monday due to raging floodwaters that closed all access to the park.

The state of Michigan is trying to plant more trees this year, and officials want the public to join in.

SPRING LAKE — A baby eagle has died after falling from its nest near a Spring Lake fire station.

WEST OLIVE — The environmental field studies program at the Careerline Tech Center recently was awarded the Environmental Service Award (ESA) from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy for its beach clean-up project, including Beach Buddy recycling stations at area parks.

Update: The Clean-Up Blitz has been rescheduled for Sunday, May 22, starting at 1 p.m.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Anna Lynn Heine has thought about dropping out of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg more times than she cares to admit.

A beach cleanup, a parade and a celebration in Central Park took place in Grand Haven on Saturday, in honor of Earth Day.

A beach cleanup, a parade and a celebration in Central Park took place in Grand Haven on Saturday, in honor of Earth Day.

A group of wild elephants sift through garbage looking for food at a landfill in Sri Lanka. It's a dangerous undertaking — around 20 elephants have died from consuming plastic trash from the landfill in the Ampara district over the last eight years.

A “Park Cleanup Blitz” will be held in Grand Haven on Saturday to honor Earth Day.

As Grand Haven has long been and continues to be a destination for vacationers – especially the beach in the summer – pollution is a consistent problem.

Surveys on Michigan's lakes and streams are underway in parts of the state, all part of the state's annual effort to collect data to best manage fishery resources.

Michigan agency: Bird flu found in backyard flock

DETROIT — PFAS pollutants ride rivers across the Midwest and Canada to get to the Great Lakes. But not in the way a pair of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers studying the forever chemicals expected, and that could impact how environmental officials regulate the chemicals.

After a century of use for saw milling, 60 years as a municipal dump site and 70 years as a coal-fired power plant, the city of Grand Haven is making a push to renew Harbor Island and restore it to productive use.

As ice coverage across the Great Lakes falls from winter highs with spring and summer warming ahead, Lake Michigan is likely to end up with a just-below-average season.

PORT SHELDON TWP. — An administrative law judge has raised questions about Consumers Energy’s plan to shut down the entirety of the J.H. Campbell power plant in 2025.

CHICAGO — A group of scientists walked out on to frozen Lake Michigan to do something they’ve done time and again throughout the Great Lakes: collect water.

ROBINSON TWP. — The ice jam that has caused minor flooding along the Grand River has moved farther downriver, lessening the threat of more severe flooding in the area.