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Climate Change Supercharging, Spring Sampling, Nature Preserving

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Environment Report

Climate change is supercharging the water cycle, bringing heavier rain extremes and related flood risks across the U.S.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s largest research vessel, the Lake Guardian, has begun its annual spring water quality survey across the Great Lakes.

Part of the “Free-Flowing Success” of environmental efforts last year in the Saginaw Bay region included the Three Ponds Nature Preserve.

For more, visit https://mrgreatlakes.com/

Our Universe

The Local Group

We live in the Milky Way galaxy, a member of a collection of around 80 galaxies known as the Local Group.

Backyard Astronomer

5/5/25 - Waxing Gibbous Moon

All this week, the phase of the moon grows larger and brighter as it moves from first quarter toward full. We call this period the “waxing gibbous moon” as the oval shape becomes wider and more rounded.

Environment Report

All Scraps: Food and Tires

A Detroit nonprofit called Make Food Not Waste has an initiative to cut Michigan’s food waste in half by 2030. There’s a Give a Scrap Food Scrap Pickup Service available in Bay City, Saginaw and Birch Run.

Hidden History

Victorian-Era Baby Carriage

The story behind a wicker baby carriage that dates back to the late 1800s.