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AuthorsBooks, Authors, Art and MusicFeature HomepageHabitat RestorationHamiltonHistory and CultureLake OntarioLatest NewsNewsOntarioResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchSharon OosthoekWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWisconsinBook Club: Celebrating environmental success stories in the Great Lakes
-While significant challenges remain, there is still much to celebrate.
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AuthorsClimate ChangeFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsForests and PlantsHabitat RestorationNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience Says WhatScience, Technology, ResearchSharon OosthoekWater Quality and Restoration EffortsScience Says What? What’s up with dissolved organic carbon (AKA why is my local stream murky?)
-If you’ve noticed your local waterway turning a deeper shade of brown over the past few decades, you’re not alone. Scientists in the Great Lakes region have noticed the same thing.
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Algae BloomsAuthorsClimate ChangeFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsHabitat RestorationJohn HartigLatest NewsNewsOntarioRecreation and TourismRecreational Hunting and FishingResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsGreat Lakes Moment: Decreasing Great Lakes ice cover has consequences
-In the Great Lakes basin, less lake ice cover is already having major impacts.
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CollaborationFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsHabitat RestorationHistory and CultureLake HuronLatest NewsMichiganNewsRecreation and TourismResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchShipwrecksWater Quality and Restoration EffortsArtificial reefs bring wild lake trout to Lake Huron
-The constructed reefs are likely to be adequate for fish to breed and reproduce indefinitely.
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CollaborationFish, Birds and AnimalsForests and PlantsGreat Lakes News CollaborativeHabitat RestorationLake HuronLatest NewsMichiganNewsScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsMulti-million dollar restoration projects proposed for the Saginaw Bay watershed; paid with settlement money from corporate polluters
-Ten restoration projects have been proposed, including wetlands and other wildlife habitats.
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AuthorsDetroitDetroit RiverFeature DetroitFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsForests and PlantsGreat Lakes News CollaborativeHabitat RestorationIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentJohn HartigLatest NewsMichiganNewsProtectRegionResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsGreat Lakes Moment: The event that saved Humbug Marsh
-Humbug Marsh is an internationally important wetland because of its ecological impact on the Detroit River corridor and the Great Lakes Basin.
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Algae BloomsAPClimate ChangeFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsHabitat RestorationLake HuronLatest NewsMichiganNewsProtectResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsScientists: Atmospheric carbon might turn lakes more acidic
-The Great Lakes have endured a lot the past century, from supersized algae blobs to invasive mussels and bloodsucking sea lamprey.
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AuthorsDetroitDetroit RiverFeature DetroitFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsHabitat RestorationJohn HartigLatest NewsMichiganNewsRegionScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsGreat Lakes Moment: The great blue herons of Stony Island
-It can be quite unsettling to hear the unexpected “frahnk frahnk” of a startled great blue heron who just had its fishing expedition disrupted.
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APChicagoClimate ChangeDetroitFeature DetroitFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsForests and PlantsHabitat RestorationIllinoisLatest NewsMichiganNewsProtectRecreation and TourismResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsExtinctions, shrinking habitat spur ‘rewilding’ in cities
-Animal and plant species are dying off at an alarming rate. Their plight is stirring calls for “rewilding” places where they thrived until driven out by development, pollution and climate change.
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AuthorsFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsGreat Lakes News CollaborativeHabitat RestorationJohn HartigLatest NewsMichiganNewsOntarioResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchTorontoWater Quality and Restoration EffortsGreat Lakes Moment: New video game teaches watershed management
-Researchers from the University of Windsor and Sheridan College have developed a new video game to train and empower youth to take on the challenge of ecological restoration.
