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Some ice has started to form along Lake Erie’s western edge, though federal scientists say these patches represent only the earliest stages of freeze-up, not the onset of lake wide […]
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The U.S. Coast Guard Sector Northern Great Lakes began ice-breaking operations in the Great Lakes on Wednesday for the winter shipping season. Currently, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Spar will […]
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By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva
The U.S. Geological Survey has began large-scale low-level airplane flights over Michigan's Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin to obtain high-resolution data on subsurface mineral structures and bedrock composition. The data will be used to create two- and three-dimensional maps to better understand the geological structure at depths
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Since first being detected in 2021, a subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza has had a dramatic impact on North America
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By Victoria Witke
New research shows Anishinaabe fire practices shaped today’s Great Lakes ecosystems. The region’s forests never existed and can’t continue to exist without people – or fire.
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A low water advisory was put in place for Western Lake Erie’s exposed shorelines after strong steady winds and gusts up to 40 mph pushed waters toward the opposite end […]
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By Joe Lorenz
Electrification and tariffs mean rural Midwest communities can cash in on their mineral resources. But how can these ventures balance local benefit to the ecological cost?
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An honorary professor of economics at Western University is among a group of three researchers who won this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in economics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday that Peter Howitt, along with Dutch-born Joel Mokyr and Philippe Aghion of France, received the prize for “having
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Despite a 55% cut to its portion of H2Ohio funding, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources is “still in the fight” to build, expand, or enhance wetlands as a means […]
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A recent collaborative study conducted by nine Indigenous entities and academic researchers was conducted to understand how climate change threatens the lake sturgeon and to develop adaptation strategies rooted in […]
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In February 1877 a group of Huron College alumni gathered with the goal of turning their college into a university.
