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Apparently radishes and algae don’t mix.
Experts say this rooted vegetable captures excess phosphorus before it feeds algae plaguing lakes.
The holes they leave keeps water in place.
Scientists on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean determined that people who live near water tend to live longer. A research team at the University of Exeter in Great Britain found that correlation in British census data on human health and the environment. Theories for the possible link include less stress, more outdoor activity, a calmer lifestyle, and the soothing effects of sunsets and walks on a beach. Wealth was not a factor. People of limited means showed the biggest gains in life spans.
The Ohio governor likely will sign into law industry-soft rules for enforcing mother of all regional water compacts.
Has he sacrificed the near-shore health of Lake Erie?
While another algae-filled summer appears to face Lake Erie, an international panel has made curbing the region’s nutrient runoff a binational priority. The problem threatens public health and the economy. Can it prompt action?
Despite data gaps, the U.S. and Canada are heading down the home stretch with their first major update in 25 years to the The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich has proposed a compromise to a controversial law, and the new bill highlights the complexities around the region’s water compact.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich silenced many of his critics on July 15 when he vetoed legislation fellow Republican Party conservatives engineered that would have gutted the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact. Kasich is now in position to preserve even more Great Lakes water.
The University of Toledo reports twice as much potentially deadly microcystis – the most prevalent form of toxic algae – in western Lake Erie as there was this time last year.
Ohio gov’s veto avoids lawsuits from U.S. states and scorn from Canadians. Let’s hope Ohio lawmakers don’t override it with misplaced job creation zeal.
The utility deserves credit for modernizing a mammoth coal-fired power plant, one of the nation’s largest. But the project is a reminder that pollution control upgrades are expensive and slow.