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CollaborationEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentInfrastructureLatest NewsNewsScience, Technology, ResearchTraverse City‘Solar grazing’ is a way for farmers and solar companies to use land. But there are challenges
-Some solar companies and farmers are trying to work together to use land in ways that will benefit everyone involved.
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What’s being done about plastic trash getting into the Great Lakes?
-As researchers learn more about the hazards of plastics and microplastics in the Great Lakes, it’s becoming clear Canada and the U.S. need to cooperate in stopping the pollution.
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AuthorsEnergy News RoundupIllinoisIndianaKathy JohnsonLatest NewsMichiganMinnesotaNewsOhioOntarioResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWisconsinEnergy News Roundup: Climate action plan in Illinois, Offshore wind project in Lake Erie
-Catch the latest in Great Lakes energy news in Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationGroundwater ContaminationLatest NewsMichiganNewsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsPentagon to address PFAS at Wurtsmith base near Oscoda
-Military officials announced they will install groundwater treatment systems around the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base to clean up chemical compounds linked to serious health issues.
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Algae BloomsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationLake ErieLatest NewsMichiganNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsScientists are learning just how complicated it will be to reduce toxic blooms in Lake Erie
-Two decades of study reveals a complex combination of factors causing large cyanobacterial blooms and their toxicity. Government incentives to reduce nutrient pollution from farms have not been enough to solve the problem so far.
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AuthorsFish, Birds and AnimalsI Speak for the FishKathy JohnsonLatest NewsMichiganNewsOntarioScience, Technology, ResearchI Speak for the Fish: Giddy up sucker
-I’m a sucker for a cute sucker, but it’s a small fan club.
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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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Climate costs imperil Detroit’s unique, diverse Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood
-“Climate gentrification” in cities like New Orleans and Miami has seen wealthier and whiter residents displace low-income residents and people of color in less flood-prone areas. But in Jefferson Chalmers, climate gentrification could mean that those with the resources to manage the risks and expense of living in a floodplain may replace those without them.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeCollaborationLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsNew federal money is the start of an effort to make Great Lakes coasts more resilient
-Federal money can be used to restore wetlands, buy property to use as a buffer, and invest in nature-based infrastructure.
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AuthorsFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsHistory and CultureIndigenous CommunitiesLatest NewsMichiganNewsScience, Technology, ResearchStaci Lola DrouillardNibi Chronicles: A beaver named Annabelle, her kin, and us
-Raised on Saganagons Lake in the border country between the U.S. and Canada, Milt Powell was a great friend of the Drouillard family. He and my dad had many adventures as kids and young men, learning the way of the woods in far northeastern Minnesota.
