Lost penguin’s 2,000-mile journey to Australia ends with return to Southern Ocean

The emperor penguin, dubbed Gus, had somehow swam over 2,000 miles from his icy home and was found on a sun-drenched beach in Denmark, Western Australia, earlier this month.

International non-profit plants trees at Bald Mountain State Recreation Area

Local residents joined with volunteers of the global non-profit organization DSNDP, to plant trees in collaboration with the Michigan DNR at Bald Mountain State Recreation Area, in Orion Township.

Biden sets 10-year deadline for US cities to replace lead pipes, make drinking water safer

The president announced the new regulation, which replaces a standard set forth by the Trump administration that did not include a universal requirement to replace lead pipes.

California AG sues ExxonMobil over alleged plastic recycling deception

California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday announced the filing of an unprecedented lawsuit against ExxonMobil for allegedly engaging in a 50-year campaign of deception that “caused and exacerbated the global plastics pollution crisis."

Delivery of radioactive soil from New York to Michigan suspended by judge

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is managing removal of low-level radioactive soil from Lewiston, New York, a legacy of the Manhattan Project, the secret government project to develop atomic bombs.

Oakland-Macomb County feud over wastewater bubbling into the public

Officials pointing fingers at one another over claims of Oakland County releasing untreated wastewater into Macomb County continued to fester on Wednesday.

Invasive pest threatening Michigan's Christmas trees spurs quarantine order up north

Due to the infestation of balsam woolly adelgid in a county, the state is restricting the movement of trees to prevent the pest from further spreading to other nurseries.

Michigan's artificial shorelines are making its lakes sick. Can they be healed?

Michigan's lakes have been severed from the landscape as the state's shorelines are increasingly developed. The consequences stretch beyond the beach.

EPA begins removing materials at Clinton Township site contaminated after March explosion

Nearly six months after a building exploded in Clinton Township, sending debris flying so far that it killed someone who was about ¼ mile away from the scene, the EPA is cleaning up the site.

Roseville residents can get a free rain barrel kit

Two-hundred free rain barrel kits are being given away to Roseville residents as part of a pilot program to reduce the impact of rain on sewers and reduce combined sewer overflows into Lake St. Clair.

Last year's wildfire smoke killed 169 people in Michigan, new study estimates

A new map outlines what parts of the U.S. were most impacted by smoke during last year's wildfire season. It shows metro Detroit was one of the worst.

Wildfire smoke pours across America bringing haze from coast to coast

Hundreds of wildfires burning across the western U.S. and Canada are spewing dense smoke that is being carried hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away.