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Researchers are trying to determine how blue-green algae toxins affect people’s health when breathed through the air. Residents age 10 and older, who live, work, or recreate near Lake Erie […]
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The Lake Superior Estuarium is working on educating the public on how “good fires” can help restore Minnesota and Wisconsin Point’s forests. Read the full story by KQDS-TV- Duluth, MN.
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By Anna Ironside
Postage stamps featuring wildlife are helping to fund conservation and bring awareness to communities about habitat protection throughout the Great Lakes region by centering species like the wood duck (Aix sponsa), wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) and piping plover (Charadrius melodus).
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The SONS (Save Our Native Species) of Lake Erie stocked more than 1,500 brown trout into Presque Isle Bay, Pennsylvania, that they raised throughout the winter at their hatchery off […]
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The “living” sand dune along Lake Michigan has buried beach parking lot and infrastructure within Indiana Dunes National Park. Annually the dune sand moves about five to ten feet toward […]
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Below Cleveland, Ohio, in a subterranean world many surface dwellers don’t know exists, miners extract a crucial winter mineral — salt. The Whiskey Island salt mine, owned by food giant […]
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The boiler from the 1914 shipwrecked Silver Spray remains just offshore of Chicago in the Morgan Shoal, the ancient shallow bedrock in Lake Michigan. Chicago residents and advocates fear an […]
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Officials in Avon Lake, Ohio, will soon take the next step in redeveloping the former power plant site along Lake Erie into a public park and mixed-use district that could […]
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This year a very thin ice bridge formed on Lake Superior between Michigan’s remote Isle Royale and the mainland, but the Isle Royale wolf and moose study, now entering its […]
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St. Louis County, Minnesota, is asking for state funding to beef up the Lake Superior shoreline at Scandia Cemetery, where erosion has revealed human remains. Read the full story by […]
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After heavy March rainfall in the Great Lakes region, the International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board is now predicting water levels to slightly exceed the average but adds that flooding […]