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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. 

David Poulson is the editor of Great Lakes Echo. He also is the associate director of Michigan State Universitys Knight Center for Environmental Journalism where he teaches environmental, investigative and computer-assisted reporting. Before coming to MSU in 2003, he was a daily newspaper reporter and editor for 22 years, a period when he mostly covered environmental issues in the Great Lakes region. He is on the advisory boards for Michigan Sea Grant and MSUs Environmental Science and Policy Pr...

MARQUETTE — You can recycle cans, clothing, wine corks and takeout containers. How about an entire building? Major upscaling of recycling is turning rundown

I love animals that live on trails near where I live. Ginger fat squirrels with small fast fingers, white-tailed deer jumping out of your way into the bush an

Nominees for the first Excellence in Service Awards are being sought.

Great Lakes Echo reporters are utilizing TikTok as a new platform for storytelling. Our first video discusses the impacts of climate change on wine grape production in Michigan.

  Great Lakes Echo recently placed second in the College Newspaper of the Year category of a Michigan Press Association contest.

Its part of an effort to increase visibility and experiment with news delivery.

Environmental news of the Great Lakes region

Environmental news of the Great Lakes region