Forecasting Change News Today

DTE Energy is planning to lay down about 20 miles of pipeline to get natural gas to residents and businesses around the villages of Mesick and Buckley.

The wildfires in Texas come months after devastating wildfires in Hawaii and Canada.

According to Great Lakes Ice Tracker, ice cover on the Great Lakes was at a record low of 3.1%, eclipsing the previous Feb. 11 record of 6.5% set in 2012.

"(The) environment is my thing," News 6 Chief Meteorologist Tom Sorrells said. "I'm from the age of give a hoot don't pollute."

The City of Winter Park is set to discuss the ban on gas-powered leaf blowers at a special meeting on Thursday.

Winter has arrived in Michigan, and with it, loads and loads of road salt. It’s terrible for the environment. What can we do about it?

To prevent the prolific fish from spilling out of Illinois’ waterways and into Lake Michigan and beyond, the Army Corps is planning to build a $1.416 billion high-tech suite of barricades to deter the fish from moving upstream.

Despite Detroit’s roller coaster weather, 2023 was Earth’s warmest year in 174 years of observational recordkeeping, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Scientists also said the melting of sea ice led to record low ice coverage in the Antarctic.

There’s hardly any ice on Lake Michigan right now. Same goes for the other Great Lakes. Without ice on the lakes, weather patterns and regional commerce could look entirely different.

Michigan sends about 2 billion pounds of food waste to landfills every year. One of the goals in the state’s climate plan is to cut that in half by 2030.