Great Lakes Echo News Today

While conservationists have made some notable strides to save the Great Lakes piping plover, a rising threat exacerbates the challenges for the critically endangered bird: climate change.

Environmental journalism is a difficult yet important field, says a freelance journalist who will be speaking at an upcoming environmental festival in Manistee, Michigan. “Sometimes you’re asking people difficult questions,” said Genevieve Fox, a former Great Lakes Echo reporter who now writes for Planet Detroit, Metromode and The Keel.

Northern Lakes Community Mental Health Authority offers adult foster care (AFC) homes to adults living with disabilities in across Crawford, Grand Traverse, Leelanau, Missaukee, Roscommon, and Wexford counties.

Books usually speak to readers through words and, sometimes, illustrations. But we can learn what motivated their authors by speaking directly to them, as Great Lakes Echo correspondents did in interviews this year about new books about environmental issues in the region.

LANSING – Books usually speak to readers through words and, sometimes, illustrations. But we can learn what motivated their authors by speaking directly

Guinness World Records recently announced that the world’s new hottest pepper is a veggie known as Pepper X, grown by Puckerbutt Pepper Co. of Fort Mill, South Carolina. But Ryan Karcher, a veteran pepper grower from Howell, Michigan, is contesting Pepper X’s spice and flavor with his own pepper. It will be featured in a January 22 television show called Superhot: The Spicy World of Pepper People. 

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LANSING – Books usually speak to readers through words and, sometimes, illustrations.

Across the state, more than 40 suicide prevention coalitions work to help Michiganders who are thinking about ending their lives.

As a disclaimer in this episode, there are comments and references referring to the Feb. 13 mass shooting that took place on Michigan State University’s campus earlier this year. This...