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ChicagoClimate ChangeFeature HomepageFeature-ChicagoIllinoisLake MichiganLatest NewsNewsScience, Technology, ResearchChicago’s beach season is over … or is it? Lake Michigan temps are breaking records.
-Lake Michigan’s surface temperature has been above average nearly every day this year so far. All five Great Lakes are heating up.
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AuthorsFeature HomepageFoodForests and PlantsGreat Lakes News CollaborativeHistory and CultureIndigenous CommunitiesLatest NewsMinnesotaNewsRecreation and TourismScience, Technology, ResearchStaci Lola DrouillardWater Quality and Restoration EffortsNibi Chronicles: The Gift of Manoomin
-The rice harvest — manoominike — has officially started across Ojibwe country. Columnist Staci Lola Drouillard talks with her cousin about harvesting and processing wild rice, as well as the importance of water quality for growing “the good berry.”
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CollaborationFish, Birds and AnimalsForests and PlantsLatest NewsMichiganNewsOhioResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchPoints North: The Last to Leave
-A researcher in Ohio was surrounded by hundreds of dead ash trees. They had been wiped out by the emerald ash borer. But in that same forest, she found a lone tree thriving. Could this be the key to saving ash from extinction?
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationFish, Birds and AnimalsLatest NewsNewsOntarioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeScience, Technology, ResearchThe ProvincesTorontoA tiny, endangered fish lies on the path of Highway 413. Canada has a plan, but no new power to protect it
-The new recovery strategy isn’t likely to tip the scales in the fish’s favor.
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ChicagoClimate ChangeFeature HomepageFeature-ChicagoIllinoisLake MichiganLatest NewsNewsScience, Technology, ResearchChicago reveals climate havens don’t exist — they must be created
-Extreme heat and precipitation events are becoming more frequent and intense in Chicago. It’s the city’s preparation efforts that will determine climate resiliency.
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I Speak for the Fish: A Sturgeon goes to Wisconsin and a Michigan muskie visits New York
-An elaborate system for tracking fish movements is rewriting our understanding of how fish use the Great Lakes.
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AgricultureFish, Birds and AnimalsIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsNewsScience, Technology, ResearchWisconsinFarmers turn to ‘predator-proof’ fences to deter wolves in northern Wisconsin
-So far, no wolves have killed livestock within the fences on farms where they’ve been installed.
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AYITWKFeature HomepageFoodForests and PlantsHistory and CultureLatest NewsNewsRecreation and TourismScience, Technology, ResearchForaged Fruit and Nuts: Wild Apples & Abundant Acorns
-Autumn brings with it a bounty of fruits and nuts that often go unnoticed in our modern culinary landscape. Among the most abundant and overlooked are acorns and wild apples.
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Points North: A Natural Ending
-Peter Quakenbush’s dream is to create a conservation burial forest – a place that would both preserve the woods and give people the option to be buried in nature. But not everyone is on board with that idea.
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Americans love nature but don’t feel empowered to protect it, new research shows
-New research shows that Americans have positive feelings toward nature but also detects strong undertones of longing, guilt and worry.
