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What’s being done about plastic trash getting into the Great Lakes?
-As researchers learn more about the hazards of plastics and microplastics in the Great Lakes, it’s becoming clear Canada and the U.S. need to cooperate in stopping the pollution.
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A Community-Led Approach To Stopping Flooding Expands
-In a region where communities of color are most impacted by flooding, RainReady is bringing together community members to create flood mitigation plans.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationGroundwater ContaminationLatest NewsMichiganNewsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsPentagon to address PFAS at Wurtsmith base near Oscoda
-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.
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Algae BloomsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeCollaborationLake ErieLatest NewsNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsToxins 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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Algae BloomsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationLake ErieLatest NewsMichiganNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsScientists 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.
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Climate ChangeCollaborationForests and PlantsIndigenous CommunitiesLatest NewsMinnesotaNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchSurvival 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.
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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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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeCollaborationLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsNew 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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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.
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Milwaukee residents fear more flooding due to planned I-94 expansion
-Two extra highway lanes will add 29 acres of asphalt next to Near West Side Milwaukee neighborhoods that already face flood risks.
