Doug Crump of Environment and Climate Change Canada has travelled the Great Lakes for many years as part of work to ensure wildlife is conserved and protected. Central to Crump’s […]
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Breaking: Report finds ‘environmental injustice’ in Flint water crisis
Flint River, Flint Michigan (Image: Wikimedia Commons, Andrew Jameson) State government is primarily responsible for the Flint water crisis, and state officials – including the governor – should stop implying […]
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From State of the State to State of the Lakes: Southeast Michigan is re-connecting with water for economic development and lifestyle.
by Martina Guzman Every January, the president of the United States gives the much anticipated state of the union address, in Michigan, the governor gives the state of the state […]
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$50 million cut for Great Lakes cleanup in Obama 2016 budget riles healthy waters group
President Obama released his budget proposal this week, and for the third year in a row, the administration is proposing a reduction in Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Funding. The proposed […]
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Lead is Not the Only Threat
The EPA released a report last week stating that the Great Lakes Basin needs $80 billion dollars in wastewater infrastructure fixes over the next 20 years, in order to prevent […]
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FLINT IS NOT ALONE: Infrastructure Concerns
The Flint water story has raised awareness across the country about aging infrastructure needs. It’s clear that Flint isn’t the only city with high levels of lead in their drinking […]
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A Tree “Library” in Downriver Detroit
Naturalists working in the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge have found a number of species of trees and plants that they believe were native to the region before the arrival […]
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Sea Lamprey Biopesticide
The Environmental Protection Agency has registered a pheromone that draws sea lamprey together for mating as their first vertebrate biopesticide for the Great Lakes. The odor, known by the […]
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Secret Lives of Fish
The Great Lakes Fisheries Commission has been using telemetry to spy on such native Great Lakes fish as trout, sturgeon, and walleye, and they’re discovering things they didn’t know about […]
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Impact of Asian Carp in Lake Erie
Researchers at the University of Michigan and the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor have released the first in a series of papers describing what would happen if […]