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Algae BloomsAuthorsFeature HomepageJames ProffittLake ErieLatest NewsNewsOhioWater Quality and Restoration EffortsA Decade After Crisis, Algal Blooms Persist
-Efforts to cut nutrients in Lake Erie remain ineffective.
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Dams may slow harmful algal blooms in urban lakes, expert says
-Like clockwork, Michigan’s Ford Lake and its downstream neighbor, Belleville Lake, turn bright green every summer due to harmful algal blooms.
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Algae BloomsAuthorsInvasive SpeciesJames ProffittLake ErieLake Erie-EPALatest NewsNewsScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsFrom the Ice Age to Now: A Lake Erie timeline
-The ups and downs of the southernmost Great Lake.
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Algae BloomsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationFeature HomepageLake ErieLatest NewsMichiganNewsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsCan Michigan reduce phosphorus pollution getting into Lake Erie by 40 percent?
-Michigan won’t reach the phosphorus reduction goal by 2025 as planned. It’s uncertain when it might attain that goal to help reduce cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Erie.
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AgricultureAlgae BloomsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake ErieLatest NewsMichiganNewsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsMichigan farm czar: Our fight against Lake Erie pollution isn’t working
-Ahead of a gathering to assess the health of Lake Erie, Michigan acknowledges it won’t meet a 2025 deadline to cut phosphorus runoff into the lake by 40 percent.
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Algae BloomsGLNCGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLake ErieLatest NewsNewsOntarioWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWATCH: Ontario’s greenhouse sector with The Narwhal
-The Catch took a look at why experts are saying water from greenhouses in southern Ontario could be harming Lake Erie. Journalist and farmer Matt McIntosh recently reported on the issue for The Narwhal.
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Algae BloomsEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingFeature HomepageIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake ErieLatest NewsNewsOntarioWater Quality and Restoration EffortsLake Erie is full of algae again. Southwestern Ontario’s exploding greenhouse sector won’t help
-Experts say nutrient-rich water from greenhouse farms could be harming Lake Erie, but Ontario’s Environment Ministry has issued very few fines for potential algae-causing infractions.
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Algae BloomsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationLatest NewsNewsOhioWater Quality and Restoration EffortsUS EPA okays Ohio plan to reduce toxic cyanobacterial blooms; Environmentalists say it won’t work
-Environmentalists say the Ohio plan will not work because it doesn’t hold agriculture responsible for the runoff from fields using manure from factory farms as fertilizer.
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Algae BloomsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeCollaborationLake ErieLatest NewsNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsToxins from cyanobacterial blooms can be airborne, but the threat to public health is unclear
-Researchers are studying how much of cyanobacterial toxins become airborne. They say breathing in the toxins is much worse than ingesting them.
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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.
