Overnight, the geese
A poem by Lex Vacilando.
End of Summer at Detroit’s Love Isle
A photo essay of young love on Detroit’s Belle Isle By Amy Sacka Early on in my relationship, I sent [...]
A New Fertilizer Mine has Michigan Residents Worried
The largest potash mine in the country is coming to Central Michigan. But at what cost?
America’s Largest Inland Port is Running Out of Water
The proposed solution — a thirty-one-mile-long pipeline draining Lake Michigan — is dividing residents of Joliet, Illinois.
The Unfinished Business of Flint’s Water Crisis
Many of the most important reforms at the root of the city’s water crisis remain undone.
What Happens After Coronavirus?
Moratoriums on evictions, utility shut-offs now are necessary, but policymakers should also plan for the post-coronavirus fallout.
Detroit Water Shutoffs and a Crisis of Public Health
Activists have been working for years to change the broader narrative around water access.
Just Downriver from Detroit
"During my visits to to the nursing home, Dad and I have sometimes settled into chairs to time-travel through a photo album."
Opèksipu Catches Sun Before it Flows Beneath the Washington Street Bridge
"home is built upon the scaffolding / of a hundred thousand stories..."
When Did the Milwaukee River Become ‘Unswimmable’?
An excerpt from The Milwaukee Anthology.
Northwest Indiana’s Slow Burn
Water, oil, and industrial volcanoes in Indiana's Calumet region, along the shore of Lake Michigan.
The Future of the Great Lakes
In an era of climate change and corporate extraction, what will it take to manage the Great Lakes?