Environment

The last of three young peregrine falcons has left a nest box located on top of Spartan Stadium at Michigan State University. MSU Fisheries and Wildlife Club Advisor Jim Schneider said they’re expected to migrate south sometime in November.

The two loons have nested together at the Seney National Wildlife Refuge in the Upper Peninsula for a quarter century and are back this spring for their 26th year as a breeding pair.

In areas where floods were once rare, some neighborhoods are now flooding repeatedly. Storm water sewers are being overwhelmed by more intense storms.A group of researchers is instead helping cities use their current systems better with an app.

Cutting carbon emissions to zero in the next 30 years would save about 74 million lives this century, a new analysis estimates.

Michigan State University ecologists collaborated internationally with both professional and volunteer scientists to better understand what is driving a…

Visitors to Michigan State University’s campus might soon notice landscaping crews using quieter and more environmentally-friendly equipment.MSU’s…

Michigan State University researchers say they have found a connection between invasive zebra mussels and toxic algae blooms through a long-term…

Michigan State University’s work to protect and study pollinators has gone on without a base of operations on campus. Now, there’s a new center devoted to…

There’s been a lot of news about the amount of plastic debris in the oceans. But plastic pollution is also affecting the Great Lakes. A study out of the…

The steady sound of crickets chirping in the evening is a staple of a midwest summer. And with some simple math that chirping can be utilized to tell the…