A few weeks ago, we stood at the edge of Belle Isle, where the Detroit River meets Lake St. Clair, watching the first sheets of ice rumbling into the shoreline like a slow moving freight train. This would normally have occurred a month earlier. Climate change has made ice watch part of the weather report. …
For several years, environmental and governmental groups have dealt with strategies for addressing invasive plant and aquatic animals brought into the Great Lakes from foreign environments. Most recently, the invasion has come from the interior; specifically from the south, where Asian carp were imported to clean catfish ponds of algae, but were fond to multiple …
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Does nature have rights? We have enough trouble ensuring that human beings have equal rights, much less equity in a free society. But does water, land, and air have a right to exist in a safe environment? And do we have a right to violate it? Several years ago, while vacationing on Pelee Island, the …
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