Lexi Krupp
Science and Conservation ReporterLexi Krupp reports on science and the environment. Previously, she worked for Gimlet Media where she helped the Science Vs podcast team distinguish what's fact from what's not. Her work has appeared in Audubon, Popular Science, VICE, and elsewhere.
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John Janssen remembers the moment he realized Lake Michigan was about to change.It was a September day in 1990 and he was diving looking for sculpin — an… -
Early in his career, Phil Myers was teaching an ecology course at a research station just south of the Mackinac Bridge, near Pellston. Before the semester… -
A small, native predator is flourishing in the Upper Peninsula. Lower Michigan is a different story.Bob Sanders and Angela Kujawa have driven on snowmobile trails near the Manistee National Forest every week this winter following a steady beeping sound.… -
There was a plan to release hundreds of pine martens — a slender, furry predator native to the Upper Midwest — in Michigan's lower peninsula over several… -
Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s notice to shut down Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac by May won’t prompt some of the changes many environmental groups hoped… -
The few full-timers left working as commercial fishers in Michigan received good news this month amid a tumultuous year for the industry.Michigan’s… -
A years-long effort to build an experimental fish ladder on the Boardman River in Traverse City is in jeopardy. That’s all because of a man who decided to… -
Construction on the nearly $20 million FishPass project in Traverse City is on hold until May, at the earliest. That’s when a circuit court judge will… -
The plan to dig a nearly four-mile tunnel underneath the Straits of Mackinac and replace the Line 5 oil and gas pipelines continues to move forward. Last… -
In a scathing letter, several Michigan legislators urged the state Department of Natural Resources to renew all commercial fishing licenses and permits…
