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AgricultureCollaborationDrinking WaterLatest NewsNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsBig Benefits from Experimental Watersheds
-In the ’30s, the USDA established a series of experimental watersheds to better understand how erosion, runoff, and water quality vary in response to different agricultural practices, including sites in the Great Lakes region.
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Drinking WaterFish, Birds and AnimalsForever Chemicals FeaturedGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLatest NewsMichiganNewsPFASRecreational Hunting and FishingResearch, Data and TechnologyPFAS is in fish and wildlife. Researchers prowl Michigan for clues.
-Years into Michigan’s PFAS contamination crisis, little is known about how the chemicals affect the fish and wildlife that live in tainted environments. Michigan has become a laboratory for answers.
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Drinking WaterGroundwater ContaminationIllinoisLatest NewsMichiganNewsOntarioResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsRoad Salt: Researchers look at vegetables and juices for alternatives to salt
-Great Lakes residents depend on road salt to reach their destinations safely in the winter, but that safety places a heavy burden on freshwater ecosystems.
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Climate ChangeDrinking WaterGreat Lakes News CollaborativeInfrastructureLatest NewsMichiganNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater could make the Great Lakes a climate refuge. Are we prepared?
-Michigan and the Great Lakes region — with an abundance of fresh water, warming winters and less fire-prone forests — stand to attract millions of new residents in the coming years looking to escape flooded coastal areas and the parched land of the West.
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Climate ChangeDetroitDrinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature DetroitGary WilsonLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeExcited about Biden: Detroit advocate hopeful on environmental justice progress after decades of inertia
-Michelle Martinez, acting executive director and statewide coordinator for Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, spoke to Great Lakes Now about her history with Detroit, environmental justice and the new president.
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Program to study Clinton River to improve water quality
-The monitoring is part of the Great Lakes Water Authority’s Regional River Water Quality Monitoring Program.
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Climate ChangeDrinking WaterEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLatest NewsMichiganShould future plans for Line 5 consider climate change?
-Read or listen to the Interlochen report on Michigan Radio.
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CollaborationFish, Birds and AnimalsHabitat RestorationLatest NewsNewsOntarioResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchU.S., Canadian researchers conduct binational birds conservation research
-A lot of marsh birds are experiencing steep declines in their populations, especially with water levels rising and affecting their habitats, coastal wetlands.
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CollaborationFish, Birds and AnimalsLatest NewsNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchHerring gull eggs help monitor Great Lakes ecosystems
-For about 50 years, herring gulls have been used to get a better idea of how the Great Lakes are changing through time.
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Invasive SpeciesLake ErieLake HuronLake MichiganLake OntarioLatest NewsNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, Research30 Years Later: Mussel invasion legacy reaches far beyond Great Lakes
-“They will be big players for probably hundreds of years,” said one researcher.
