environment

Ants - nasty little ants! - plant some of our most beloved spring wildflowers.

I love the sound of an orchestra warming up.The cacophony is hardly musical, but if you listen, you can hear what’s coming.Fragments of melody float from…

As Canadian officials lobbied a Michigan Senate committee in March to keep the Line 5 pipeline open, Sen. Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids) grew frustrated…

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula used to be represented by Democrats in Lansing and Washington, DC.Now there’s one left: Sara Cambensy from Marquette represents…

In countless musicals, romance seems to develop when the male and female leads join in a duet, which often evolves into a dance.And the pair bond is…

Crews are monitoring a wildfire in the Huron-Manistee National Forest. The 600-acre fire started Monday around Warfield Road east of Wellston, and is…

In my grade school music classes, we spent the month of March singing folk songs about St. Patrick.I still remember most of the lyrics and the legends.In…

If a soothsayer bids you, "Beware the Ides of March," perhaps you should heed the warning.In the Roman calendar, the "ides" was the middle day.Remember…

When this radio station was in its infancy, it aired a program called, if memory serves, "Eco-logue."Jack Hood, who then was the ecology teacher at…

During summer, it is easy to overlook beech trees.But this time of year, when leaves are gone from mature beech and almost all other deciduous trees, the…