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AuthorsChicagoFeature HomepageFeature-ChicagoFish, Birds and AnimalsIllinoisKathy JohnsonLatest NewsNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchHow do fish survive in large urban waterways, like the Chicago River?
-The Chicago River’s hardened shorelines, stormwater pollution events and limited habitat would seem inhospitable to fish. Yet, native species are finding ways to call the city home.
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CollaborationFish, Birds and AnimalsForests and PlantsLatest NewsMichiganNewsOhioResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchPoints North: The Last to Leave
-A researcher in Ohio was surrounded by hundreds of dead ash trees. They had been wiped out by the emerald ash borer. But in that same forest, she found a lone tree thriving. Could this be the key to saving ash from extinction?
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Energy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMichiganNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchBeaver Island takes early steps to test wave energy in its waters
-Wave energy converters use the movement of the water to generate electricity. A research team from the University of Michigan will spend the next couple years developing a prototype to install in the waters off the island.
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CollaborationFeature HomepageForests and PlantsGreat Lakes News CollaborativeInvasive SpeciesLake ErieLake OntarioLatest NewsNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsFinding creative new ways to manage invasive cattails
-Scientists are thinking holistically about biodiversity, sustainability, and resilience when it comes to the role invasive cattails play in the Great Lakes.
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Feature HomepageGLNCGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLatest NewsMinnesotaNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsThrough a Glass Darkly
-Antidepressants can affect reaction times in fish and birth control gives male specimens female traits. How might pharmaceutical pollution impact life around the Great Lakes?
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DetroitFeature HomepageLatest NewsMichiganNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience Says WhatScience, Technology, ResearchThe solar eclipse is a great opportunity for students and citizen scientists alike
-Educators, students, and science enthusiasts in the region are teaming up with NASA to take important weather measurements during the event.
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Fewer fish and more algae? Scientists seek to understand impacts of historic lack of Great Lakes ice
-Michigan Tech University biologists have been observing a remote Lake Superior island’s fragile wolf population every winter since 1958, but they had to cut this season’s planned seven-week survey short after just two weeks.
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Feature HomepageLake ErieLatest NewsMilwaukeeNewsOhioResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWisconsinTeachers and scientists work together on the Lake Guardian
-Each summer, 15 educators join the EPA on a research trip around one of the Great Lakes. Applications for next summer are due February 19.
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Preserving Minnesota’s bogs could fight climate change
-Researchers in Minnesota are creating a national map to identify peatlands – soggy areas of slowly decaying organic matter – and guides for how to restore them. The PeatRestore project is set to span several years.
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Curt WolfDetroitFeature DetroitFeature HomepageGLNCLatest NewsMichiganNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsThe future of water management, with Curt Wolf
-After Detroit’s 2021 catastrophic flooding event, new ideas emerged about climate adaptation. Curt Wolf sat down with Great Lakes Now to discuss how the Michigan Center for Freshwater Innovation is bringing solutions to the table by getting everyone to the table.
