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AuthorsClevelandClimate ChangeFeature ClevelandFeature HomepageLatest NewsNewsOhioScience, Technology, ResearchHow Great Lakes cities are preparing for climate migration
-Cleveland hopes to thrive as a climate refuge, but some fear gentrification and extractive development will leave longtime residents behind.
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A Great Lakes oil pipeline faces 3 controversies with no speedy resolutions
-The disputes raise questions about the region’s economy and environment, as well as national priorities over energy, water, climate and Indigenous rights.
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Amid rise of RFK Jr., officials waver on drinking water fluoridation — even in the state where it started
-As the nation’s top health official calls fluoride “industrial waste,” state and local governments are pulling back on the practice, upending a decades-long public health success story.
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Illinois farmers find that sheep and solar arrays go well together
-The agrivoltaics practice of raising sheep under solar panels is a win-win for Illinois farmers — but first the market for lamb meat needs to grow.
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What’s going on in Wasaga Beach? Profit, piping plovers and an Ontario town’s complicated future
-The Ontario government is handing provincial parklands over to the town in hopes of boosting the local economy. Residents wonder whether the beach will still be welcoming to the endangered birds — and the public.
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Report says growing demand from data centers, industry could stress Great Lakes water
-The Alliance for the Great Lakes report urges states to take steps to protect water resources.
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In Peshawbestown, the Grand Traverse Band puts fish waste to use
-The Grand Traverse Band is turning the waste into a compost and fertilizer, cutting down on landfill waste and helping with food sovereignty efforts.
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Blue-green algae is making a home in the warming waters of Lake Superior’s watershed
-Long a threat to southern Ontario lakes, climate change is allowing cyanobacteria — or blue-green algae — to thrive in even the coldest of the Great Lakes.
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Points North: The Pink Prairie Mascot
-In 2014, a group of botanists discovered that a very rare plant native to the Kankakee River in Illinois, had vanished from its only known native habitat in the world. That set off a quest to bring back the missing Midwestern flower.
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker signs PFAS Reduction Act
-More PFAS news with millions of Americans drinking contaminated water, and concerns in Wisconsin over a drilling operation.
