Great Lakes Echo (http://greatlakesecho.org/category/water/)
Includes water quality, quantity and use.
Over the decades, wetlands and other water bodies in Cook County, Illinois, have decreased by a third, while swamps and marshes have been drained or converted into lakes and ponds, causing havoc for wildlife, according to a recent study by a group of graduate students and their professor at the University of Illinois Chicago.
After an unknown incident caused Enbridge Energy to shut down the east leg of Line 5 last week, Attorney General Dana Nessel has requested that the entire pipeline be temporarily shut down until the damage is investigated further.
This is the second part of a four-part series on Environmental Risk in Michigan: Past, Present and Future.
The billions of years old microbes found in the sinkholes may hold the secret of how Earth went from inhabitable to habitable, sustaining plant and animal life.
Cyanobacteria can’t grow in the Great Lakes Basin without NASA knowing.
Four out of the five Great Lakes set water level records for February, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin in January asserted that the Menominee River has the right to exist naturally, flourish, evolve, remain unpolluted and carry out its natural ecosystem functions.
Lake Huron is now the clearest Great Lake, dethroning Superior from the top spot while shedding new light on shipwrecks in Thunder Bay.
Drops in baseflow can harm stream’s health and the health of the organisms that rely on them. But irrigation can mask climate-driven drops in those flows, said Sue Borchardt, a doctoral student in the department of geography at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The Great Lakes Observing System has created “Smart Great Lakes,” by making it easy for the public and policy makers to access data from buoys and underwater probes.
Read about the history of the little known International Joint Commission in “The First Century of the International Joint Commission.”
