Combining a love for both forestry and hip-hop, Thomas Easley has recruited diverse students into environmental sciences.
CIGLR
Researchers to sharpen Great Lakes ice alerts
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The data is available. Now the challenge is to provide it in a way that helps Great Lakes shippers and ice breakers.
The Buzz
Culinary guide gives bees something to buzz about
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Discovering what bees like to eat has important ramifications for growers and farmers whose flowering fruits and vegetables depend on bees for pollination.
Echo
Between government shutdowns? Great Lakes researchers struggle to carry on
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Another shutdown could irreversibly damage research efforts and make it difficult to schedule federal boats, buoys and labs that scientists need.
Homepage Featured
Phrag fight: is it friend or foe?
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How the First Nations people of Walpole Island are approaching the phragmites problem.
Homepage Featured
Minnesota man charged with smuggling turtles in packages marked as toys
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Details scant in grand jury indictment regarding attempt to illegally ship 38 box turtles to Hong Kong.
Birds
Piping plovers return to Lake Erie
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A single pair of the shorebirds nested along the lake last summer for the first time in 60 years. They’re an encouragement to the wildlife managers who are reclaiming the plover’s old habitat.
Green Gavel
Realtor fined for hiding lead paint information
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A family bought a house in April 2014. In September 2015, their child was diagnosed with lead poisoning.
Nearshore
Old specimen provides new insight into invasive algae
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New study shows aggressive invader may have made its way into North America earlier than previously understood.
Birds
Black tern numbers plummet, invasives largely to blame
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The once-abundant black tern is far less abundant in Great Lakes wetlands.
environmental politics
Local agencies want federal tools with teeth to tackle Lake Erie pollution
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Toledo and Lucas County officials are leading the fight to curb Ohio’s algae-feeding pollutants. It’s a role they say should be played by the U.S. EPA.