Environment

Ben the falcon actually left the nest prematurely and ended up in raptor rehab a few weeks ago. He'll be released into the wild today.

With the summer season kicking into gear, so will a higher chance of people coming into contact with foam - and the potential forever chemicals hiding in it.

Along with improving the Lake St. Clair shoreline, it will also build resilience against erosion and extreme weather.

If you look at the garden from above, a strange symbol can be seen. But fans of the singer Prince will recognize it as something much more familiar.

Adult mayflies don't have a mouth, only live for a couple days, and pose no threat to humans. Instead, they're flying around for a single reason: to find a mate.

Mayor Coleman Young was determined to build the facility - but the half-billion dollar project was an immediate concern as well as discharging dioxins and arsenic into Detroit and the surrounding communities.

The past few days, the air in Southeast Michigan has been some of the worst in the country. It's impacting city centers – especially in urban areas like Detroit. 

Wind combined with dry conditions has created dangerous fire risks across Michigan. The National Weather Service issued a Red Flag Warning for some counties in the northern and western parts of the state as the fire risk remains at dangerous levels throughout the state.

Due to the current forest fires in Canada, the air quality in Detroit is among the most contaminated in the country. The smoke plume from the wildfires has caused elevated levels of unhealthy fine particles in the air quality index.

"Mosquitoes, the larvae need that standing water puddles to reproduce in, and ticks people don't realize, actually need high humidity environments to survive because they actually dry out pretty quickly," he said.

Driving along U.S. 2 will yield a strange sight: giant gaps of cut-down trees with the tops sheared off.

Specifically, the iconic smokestack overlooking the site will be felled.

Construction is expected to go through the summer and fall before things are up and running.

All of Southeast Michigan and the west side of the state reported unsafe levels of ozone in the air.