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Michigan’s lost winter cancels sturgeon season, ski, dog sled races
-Cancellations mount as Michigan experiences one of the warmest winters in memory. Experts blame El Niño and climate change.
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Warm weather forces park officials to suspend Isle Royale wolf count for first time in decades
-A stretch of unusually warm weather has forced federal officials to suspend researchers’ annual wolf-moose count in Isle Royale National Park for the first time in more than six decades.
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Points North: Doe, A Deer, A (Sterilized) Female Deer
-Deer culling is common across the Midwest. Cities often hire sharpshooters or allow hunters to kill a certain number of deer.
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Smart buoys help brace Great Lakes for environmental challenges
-Lake Erie is the first of the Great Lakes getting connected to the internet with a series of offshore “smart” buoys. And it’s not just for sending texts on the water.
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Consortium of Great Lakes universities and tech companies gets $15M to seek ways to clean wastewater
-The National Science Foundation has given a consortium of Great Lakes-area universities and tech companies $15 million to develop ways to extract harmful substances from wastewater.
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You can’t stop the lake
-Pollution plays a role in preventing shoreline erosion for lakeside properties.
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‘It only makes sense’: Houses of worship adding solar arrays
-Organizations across the country are focused on getting more houses of worship to install solar panels, including in Michigan.
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Lake Erie is 13% frozen, expect less freezing in the future
-The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said ice on the Great Lakes decreased by 5% each decade for 50 years.
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Points North: Can AI Caribou Lead Us To Our Prehistoric Past?
-A team of archaeologists looks for signs of prehistoric life 100 feet underwater in Lake Huron. But they need help narrowing their search. So, they turn to artificial intelligence.