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Earth Day 2019: The Seven Generation River Premieres on the World Channel

by GLN Editor

The Seven Generation River, a half-hour documentary from Detroit Public Television’s Great Lakes Bureau and Vision Maker Media explores the political, social and environmental issues surrounding our most precious natural resource – water.

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Traverse City: If You Rebuild It, Will the Cruise Ships Come?

by Ian Wendrow

Leisure cruising along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway has been an on-again-off-again industry for several decades now. But in the past few years, there is a much more […]

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Muskegon: Former industrial waterfront makes room for cruise ships and passengers

by Ian Wendrow

“The majority of the people coming [to Muskegon] on these cruise ships are coming from the coastal region, so they’re coming out from the western states, they’re coming out from California and the northwest, they’re coming from all up and down the eastern shoreline”

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Two Lake Erie tributaries draw tens of thousands for springtime fishing

by James Proffitt, Great Lakes Now

Dates come and go, and so do groundhogs and weather reports. However, the true indicator of spring is when thousands of men, women and children suddenly appear, waist-deep in the chilly, often muddy waters of the Sandusky and Maumee rivers.

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Canada to Michigan on Line 5: “We support its continued safe operation”

by Gary Wilson, Great Lakes Now

While Michigan elected officials trade barbs and debate the fate of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac, the agency that oversees Canada’s energy industry needs left no doubt where it stands on decommissioning Line 5.

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Farming and the Future

by James Proffitt, Great Lakes Now

While most farmers aren’t happy about the newly-minted ordinance, they’re not overly concerned about it, either. Many of them at the Oak Harbor event were confident in their efforts to keep their operations as environmentally-friendly as possible.

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Report: Warming climate will challenge Great Lakes states

by Gary Wilson, Great Lakes Now

Climate change is impacting temperature increases in the Great Lakes region faster than in neighboring and the contiguous 48 states. That’s the conclusion of a report released last week by a collaboration of scientists and policy specialists in the U.S. and Canada.

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Great Lakes Moment: The Osprey Lady of Michigan

by John Hartig, Great Lakes Now

The osprey team is part of an effort to monitor, track and protect this massive bird of prey. The woman in the middle of the circle holding onto the osprey for dear life was Barb Jensen – the “Osprey Lady of Michigan.”

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Michigan Attorney General: Line 5 Tunnel is “Unconstitutional”

by Gary Wilson, Great Lakes Now

Michigan’s new attorney general is raising the stakes in the fight over whether a tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac will replace the Enbridge Line 5 oil-and-gas pipeline.