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AuthorsClimate ChangeFeature HomepageLatest NewsNewsScience Says WhatScience, Technology, ResearchSharon OosthoekScience Says What? Global worming and the Great Lakes (yes, you read that right)
-Invasion of the earthworms! It sounds like a bad Hollywood movie, but science can be stranger than fiction.
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AuthorsFeature HomepageLake MichiganLatest NewsNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchSharon OosthoekWisconsinCoastal erosion researcher appeals for help in finding her remote-control boat
-The student was gathering the final data set for her Ph.D. when her small research boat stopped responding to the remote control.
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AuthorsFeature HomepageLatest NewsNewsOntarioScience Says WhatScience, Technology, ResearchSharon OosthoekTorontoScience Says What? The weight of the world rests on a small Canadian lake
-A tiny lake just an hour’s drive from Toronto made headlines earlier this summer as the best place in the world to illustrate the dawn of a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene.
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Great Lakes microplastics concentrations exceed safe levels for wildlife
-At the levels surveyed, researchers say fish and other aquatic wildlife are at risk of ingesting enough microplastics to fill their guts, diluting their regular food and its nutritional value.
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AuthorsFeature HomepageIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMichiganNewsScience Says WhatScience, Technology, ResearchSharon OosthoekWater Quality and Restoration EffortsScience Says What? Lessons learned from a deliberate dilbit spill
-Water flowed black and shiny, coating turtles and waterfowl with a smelly goo and transforming grasses and bushes along the banks from green to oily black.
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AuthorsGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLake HuronLatest NewsMichiganNewsScience Says WhatScience, Technology, ResearchSharon OosthoekScience Says What? Bacteria in Lake Huron sinkhole do a daily tango
-Home to brilliant purple mats of cyanobacteria and white floating ponytail-like bacteria, the sinkholes have always struck me otherworldly, almost dreamy.
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AuthorsFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsForests and PlantsNewsScience Says WhatScience, Technology, ResearchSharon OosthoekScience Says What? Looking for love as northern forests heat up
-Today, southern flying squirrels are routinely found in Ontario’s Algonquin Park, roughly 62 miles (100 km) from their historic northern limit and solidly in the territory of a separate species of squirrel – northern flying squirrels.
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AuthorsBooks, Authors, Art and MusicFeature HomepageHabitat RestorationHamiltonHistory and CultureLake OntarioLatest NewsNewsOntarioResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchSharon OosthoekWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWisconsinBook Club: Celebrating environmental success stories in the Great Lakes
-While significant challenges remain, there is still much to celebrate.
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AuthorsClimate ChangeFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsForests and PlantsHabitat RestorationNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience Says WhatScience, Technology, ResearchSharon OosthoekWater Quality and Restoration EffortsScience Says What? What’s up with dissolved organic carbon (AKA why is my local stream murky?)
-If you’ve noticed your local waterway turning a deeper shade of brown over the past few decades, you’re not alone. Scientists in the Great Lakes region have noticed the same thing.
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AuthorsCitizen ScienceFeature HomepageForests and PlantsGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLatest NewsMichiganNewsOntarioProtectResearch, Data and TechnologyScience Says WhatScience, Technology, ResearchSharon OosthoekScience Says What? How 5th-graders counting plants can lead to positive change
-These young researchers are participating in citizen science — the public voluntarily helping to conduct scientific research.
