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AuthorsFeature HomepageJohn HartigLatest NewsNewsOntarioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchTorontoU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsGreat Lakes Moment: University of Windsor to build capacity for Canada’s national urban parks
-Canada is creating a network of urban parks not only to conserve nature, but to connect people and advance reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.
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Feature HomepageInvasive SpeciesLatest NewsMichiganNewsRecreation and TourismRecreational Hunting and FishingScience, Technology, ResearchPoints North: Dirty Laundry, Invasive Species, and the Limitations of Knowledge
-Invasive species can spread by hitching a ride on anglers who don’t clean their gear. This is widely known, but research suggests many anglers still don’t clean, even if it protects fish.
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Beaches, Boating, Paddle Sports and SailingFeature HomepageHistory and CultureLatest NewsMichiganNewsRecreation and TourismScience, Technology, ResearchWhy the Great Lakes region is unique for rockhounds
-The Great Lakes holds within its terrain a secret — rocks that possess stories as ancient as time itself.
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CollaborationEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentInfrastructureLatest NewsNewsScience, Technology, ResearchTraverse City‘Solar grazing’ is a way for farmers and solar companies to use land. But there are challenges
-Some solar companies and farmers are trying to work together to use land in ways that will benefit everyone involved.
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AuthorsEnergy News RoundupIllinoisIndianaKathy JohnsonLatest NewsMichiganMinnesotaNewsOhioOntarioResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWisconsinEnergy News Roundup: Climate action plan in Illinois, Offshore wind project in Lake Erie
-Catch the latest in Great Lakes energy news in Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.
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AuthorsFeature HomepageLatest NewsNewsOntarioScience Says WhatScience, Technology, ResearchSharon OosthoekTorontoScience Says What? The weight of the world rests on a small Canadian lake
-A tiny lake just an hour’s drive from Toronto made headlines earlier this summer as the best place in the world to illustrate the dawn of a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene.
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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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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.
