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Great Lakes Now specials selected for international film festival
-Three Great Lakes Now specials will be among the 60 films screened at the Thunder Bay International Film Festival in late January.
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Increased National Park visitation in Great Lakes Region
-You know those “Pure Michigan” ads? With the soft guitar strumming overlaid by actor Tim Allen’s blue-collar voice? Some Michigan residents make fun of them and say they’re cheesy. But it turns out they might be doing their job of drawing more people to enjoy Michigan as well as other Great Lakes States.
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Lingering live algae cells on Lake Erie floor jumpstart harmful algal blooms
-Legacy cyanobacteria cells (also called bluegreen algae), which can produce the strain of microcystis responsible for microcystin toxins during late-summer as well as harmful algal blooms (HABS) in autumn on Lake Erie, may be helping jump-start the blooms or otherwise contribute to rapid development of blooms, without respect to current rain events or nutrient run-off from agricultural fields, according to a recently released study.
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Great Lakes mayors and First Nation group at odds with governors on water diversions
-Tension between Great Lakes governors, Canadian premiers and a bi-national group of mayors escalated last week when representatives of the governors and premiers rejected a proposal from the mayors to modify a proposed process on how the region addresses water diversion requests.
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Michigan Senate passes bills with major impact on the Great Lakes
-GOP leaders and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder are trying to finalize the Line 5 Tunnel agreement before Gov.-elect Gretchen Whitmer, takes office in January.
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Chicago water agency greenlights road in pristine suburban space
-The Chicago Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD), recently voted to allow a road to be built through Isabella Woods that would serve the needs of private real estate development.
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Full Senate vote on Enbridge Line 5 tunnel proposal delayed
-A Senate committee has approved a proposal that would move forward Gov. Rick Snyder’s agreement with Enbridge for a tunnel to encase the Line 5 pipeline beneath the Straits of Mackinac.
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Another blow in the fight to save Lake Erie
-Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s effort to protect the future of Lake Erie from harmful algal blooms was dealt a serious blow when the Ohio Soil and Water Conservation Commission declined to move forward in designating eight watersheds in northwest Ohio as “distressed.”
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“Great Lakes in the bullseye of Climate Change”
-The National Climate Assessment says the Great Lakes Region is smack-dab in the center of some of the most damaging impacts from climate change.
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Prey fish species in Lake Superior are declining
-In the ongoing aquatic battle between predator and prey species in Lake Superior, the latter were winning the war for years.Now — and for reasons scientists can’t pin down — prey fish species are losing that war.
