Where water meets shore: read our environmental coverage
Keep it Blue: Glen Lake Association’s boat tours inspire water stewardship, July 2025
Like a pile of dead elephants: On the loss of our great beech trees, May 2025
Centerville Township cedes to EGLE in dispute over using sewage as farm fertilizer, April 2025
Remembering “Water Warrior” Holly Bird, April 2025
Grand Traverse Band, New Community Vision, re-acquire Mashkiigaki on former Timber Shores property, December 2024
Report from the Climate Change front line: Mud, grief, perseverance in wake of Hurricane Helene, October 2024
Goodbye culverts, hello timber bridge over the Crystal River, September 2024
Aquatic invasives threaten area waters, May 2024
Invasives threaten local environment, May 2024
Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail hits roadblock on northeast expansion, February 2024
Does Leelanau Conservancy’s Palmer Woods mountain biking represent development or environmental stewardship? December 2023
Saving the climate, one solar array at a time, July 2023
Warming climate breeds ticks, disease, and caution, May 2023
Want predictable winters? Climate Change says ‘Forget it’, January 2023
Septic regulations won’t hurt sales, realtors say, December 2022
Tribes lead effort to restore aquatic ecosystems, September 2022
Watershed Governance—is streaming wisdom a community solution? September 2022
Reflecting on a Manitou solitaire with the endangered piping plovers, August 2022
Investing in clean energy, from Washington, D.C., to Leelanau, August 2022
National Lakeshore looks for algal blooms on North Bar Lake, August 2022
Work begins to build beach wall on Empire shoreline, September 9, 2020
Private beach wall could dramatically change Empire shoreline, August 16, 2020
The other 2020 crisis—record-high water levels wash away beaches, May 26, 2020
Unburied Treasure: Erosion from record high water levels reveals shipwrecks, December 20, 2019
Water wranglers balance water levels, river flows in Glen Lake watershed, September 3, 2019
High waters, shrinking beaches up ante over road end lake access, August 5, 2019
High water levels hit locals in the wallet, July, 22, 2019
Climate Change to blame for high Lake Michigan water levels, July 5, 2019
High water levels: Negotiating between Lake Michigan and Lake Leelanau, June 23, 2019
Rising water sets off alarm, forces cancellation of Shanty Aid benefit event, June 22, 2019
Beach Alert! Areas of Lake Michigan shoreline unwalkable on rough water days, May 31, 2019
Fishtown water rising, May 17, 2019