Military officials announced they will install groundwater treatment systems around the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base to clean up chemical compounds linked to serious health issues.
Posted inAlgae Blooms, Climate Change, Great Lakes News Collaborative, Guest Article, Lake Erie, Latest News, News, Research, Data and Technology, Science, Technology, Research, Water Quality and Restoration Efforts
Toxins 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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Scientists 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.
Posted inClimate Change, Forests and Plants, Guest Article, History and Culture, Indigenous Communities, Latest News, Minnesota, News, Region, Research, Data and Technology, Science, Technology, Research
Survival of wild rice threatened by climate change, increased rainfall in northern Minnesota
Wild rice is an aquatic grass that thrives in shallow waters, and serves as a sacred “mashkiki,” or medicine, to the Ojibwe.
Posted inAbout Great Lakes Now, Authors, Fish, Birds and Animals, I Speak for the Fish, Latest News, Michigan, News, Ontario, Region, Science, Technology, Research, Who We Are and What We Do
I Speak for the Fish: Giddy up sucker
I’m a sucker for a cute sucker, but it’s a small fan club.
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Great Lakes microplastics concentrations exceed safe levels for wildlife
At the levels surveyed, researchers say fish and other aquatic wildlife are at risk of ingesting enough microplastics to fill their guts, diluting their regular food and its nutritional value.
Posted inClimate Change, Detroit, Guest Article, Latest News, Michigan, News, Politics, Policy, Environmental Justice, Region, Science, Technology, Research
Climate costs imperil Detroit’s unique, diverse Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood
“Climate gentrification” in cities like New Orleans and Miami has seen wealthier and whiter residents displace low-income residents and people of color in less flood-prone areas. But in Jefferson Chalmers, climate gentrification could mean that those with the resources to manage the risks and expense of living in a floodplain may replace those without them.
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New federal money is the start of an effort to make Great Lakes coasts more resilient
Federal money can be used to restore wetlands, buy property to use as a buffer, and invest in nature-based infrastructure.
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Nibi Chronicles: A beaver named Annabelle, her kin, and us
Raised on Saganagons Lake in the border country between the U.S. and Canada, Milt Powell was a great friend of the Drouillard family. He and my dad had many adventures as kids and young men, learning the way of the woods in far northeastern Minnesota.
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On Chicago’s South Side, neighbors fight to keep Lake Michigan at bay
Flaws in federal flood maps leave millions unprepared. Some are trying to fix that.