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Shipwrecked schooner with unique centerboard gets historic designation
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Unique design helped vessel handle the wind and adjust its configuration to pass through canals.
Air
Great Lakes states join emissions lawsuit
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Challengers say Trump air rules usurp state authority to address climate change.
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The first Great Lakes steamboat was a Walk in the Water
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Marine artist and historian Robert McGreevy tells the tale of the first Great Lakes steamboat. Parts of it ended up in the steeple of a Presbyterian church in Lancaster, New York.
dunes
Shifting sands: dune lovers address challenges of moving landscape
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A dune summit in Lansing looks at the economic impact of the state’s popular landscape feature and the conservation and management changes ahead.
CIGLR
Great Lakes make for great moods
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A new study shows that people living away from the Great Lakes are hospitalized for anxiety and mood disorders slightly more frequently than those who live nearer to them.
CIGLR
Michigan’s Sleeping Bear gets hot wake up call
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The northwest part of Michigan’s lower peninsula has already warmed two degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times, double that in most of the rest of the country, according to an analysis of federal temperature data dating back to 1895.
Asian carp
Favorite food not on the menu? No problem for Asian carp – they eat almost anything
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Study says lack of a picky-palate could help them spread and disrupt native ecosystems.
Africa Great Lakes
Large lakes worldwide share many of the same threats
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By Ray García
Algae pollution, plastic pollution and waste run-off plague the Great Lakes here in the United States. But similar problems also threaten large bodies of freshwater worldwide. The seven African Great Lakes and Lake Baikal in Russia, two of the world’s largest systems of freshwater, also face these problems daily. During the summer, a rapid growth of algae is among the most prominent challenges in Lake Erie and Lake Michigan. These algal blooms harm the lake animals and can harm humans as well.
Energy
Churches see the (solar) light
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Interest in powering Catholic parishes, schools and missions with the sun is surging in the wake of a large solar deal recently announced in the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.