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Enbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesEvents and Special BroadcastsFish, Birds and AnimalsGreat Lakes Now Watch PartiesGroundwater ContaminationHabitat RestorationIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentIsland BasketballRecreation and TourismResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchShipwrecksWater Quality and Restoration Efforts
Watch Party: Recoveries
-Great Lakes Now Program Director Sandra Svoboda chats with John Russick from the Chicago History Museum, and GLN Producers Kathy Johnson and Nick Austin. They answer some audience questions about the show.
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Detroit RiverEvents and Special BroadcastsGreat Lakes Now Watch PartiesLighthouses, Museums and Cultural InstitutionsRecreation and TourismWater Quality and Restoration Efforts
Watch Party: Microplastics, Macro problems
-Watch this Great Lakes Now Facebook Watch Party in partnership with the Belle Isle Conservancy, which discusses the segment “Microplastics in the Great Lakes.”
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Travel Teams: How do Great Lakes island schools get their athletes to games?
-It takes traveling by bus, ferry, airplane, snowmobile and horse taxi to get basketball teams from four schools to their games.
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Announcer: Put-in-Bay School basketball team plays in honor of beloved announcer
-A Lake Erie island community turned tragedy into fundraising, building awareness and motivation for students.
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Eastland Documentary: Filmmakers talk behind-the-scenes journey and stories
-Learn more about the tragedy and what inspired the filmmakers to tell the story of the Eastland.
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Chicago’s Eastland Disaster: Explore this Great Lakes tragedy with a Storymap
-Navigate through this digital feature to learn more about this steamship and its tragic story.
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Algae BloomsFish, Birds and AnimalsFreightersInvasive SpeciesLake HuronLake MichiganLake OntarioLake SuperiorLatest NewsNewsRecreational Hunting and FishingScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration Efforts
Offshore Decline: Great Lakes fish populations at risk from low nutrient levels
-Too many nutrients close to shore fuel algal blooms, but deeper waters have the opposite problem — fish aren’t getting enough to eat.
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Island Rebounds
-For four Great Lakes island schools’ basketball programs, the competition traditions are fierce yet friendly and play out at the annual island basketball tournament, held last year on Mackinac Island.
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Recoveries – Episode 1017
-Learn more about a little-known Chicago shipwreck that took more lives than the Titanic. Check in on the Kalamazoo River’s wildlife 10 years after the Line 6B pipeline spilled over a million gallons of oil there, and find out if COVID-19 means no basketball tournament in 2020 for four Great Lakes island schools.
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CollaborationCommercial FishingFish, Birds and AnimalsLatest NewsMichiganMinnesotaNewsRecreation and TourismRecreational Hunting and FishingResearch, Data and TechnologyWisconsin
Multi-million dollar grant funds study of Great Lakes aquaculture
-The collaborative will study how much consumers would pay for local fish and emphasize buying local.