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As Easter and Earth Day arrive on the same week, we are holding loss and new life in the same hand. The two eagle eggs in the nest at St. Patrick’s County Park in South Bend won’t hatch this spring.

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The Trump administration is proposing to take a big step back from how many wetlands it protects. Conservationists warn about the effects.

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A hidden jungle of mature white cedar trees guards the entrance to a secret world in Door County. It’s a land where ospreys ...

Two corridors in Northern Michigan have earned the designation of Pure Michigan Trails - and they couldn’t be more different.