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Photo of the Week: Big Bluestem

September 3, 2023 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

Tall bronze-colored three-parted seedheads of grass wave in the early morning breeze, light blue sky in the background.

I was delighted on my early morning hike at Lake Erie Metropark when I saw a pair of Marsh wrens chasing each other in the eight-foot tall Big bluestem prairie grass.

Once a lawn of green grass extending almost 1/2 mile to the Wave Pool, the area south of Cherry Island Nature Trail was converted to native prairie grasses a few years ago.

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Wildfire Evacuation from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

August 30, 2023 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

Operational Land Imager photo from NASA shows plumes of white smoke from large wildfire fires burning around Yellowknife. In the bottom left corner, the darker green area is Great Slave Lake. A deep brown burn scar can be seen in the upper left corner.

Heartbreaking and moving first-person account by climate refugee Michael Nabert of his evacuation from Yellowknife, the capital city of Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada.

Nabert joined thousands of Yellowknife’s residents leaving the city on Highway 3, a two-lane highway, heading south to Alberta.

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Photo of the Week: Flooding and a Tornado Come to My Hometown

August 27, 2023 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

Storm waters completely cover the paved road and sidewalk, reaching up to yards and driveways. In the background, you can see a blue four-door sedan with water up to its floorboards. In the foreground, are several trees with trunks two feet underwater. A small pollinator garden with yellow and blue blooming plants is also in the foreground.

To put it mildly, it’s been quite a week in my hometown.

And for many folks throughout Michigan.

In a period of two days, our southeast Michigan community encountered:

Multiple severe thunderstorms with intense rains, flooding roads and turning them into rivers
Heat index with temperatures over 100 degrees Farenheit
Power outages affecting over 200,000 customers for multiple days
A tornado sweeping through, ripping off rooftops of pavillions at our community park and downing trees, many trees snapped in half

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Photo of the Week: Big Bluestem

Wildfire Evacuation from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Photo of the Week: Flooding and a Tornado Come to My Hometown

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