Water
Great Lakes connects Midwest with Middle East in Chicago
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The summit spurs water management discussions and launches an initiative by three regional universities to look at water through a lens of the humanities rather than engineering.
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Water
Great Lakes Month in Review: pet coke, fracking, Asian carp funding
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Great Lakes commentator Gary Wilson on February’s biggest environmental stories.
Waste
For a city with big shoulders, Chicago is wimpy on the environment
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Weak recycling efforts and a tardy response to water quality concerns hardly lead the way to turning Chicago the same color as its river on St. Patrick’s Day.
Echo
Great Lakes Month in Review: Fracking, ballast and petcoke
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This Great Lakes Month in Review, focuses on fracking, ballast water and petcoke.
Echo
Robotic torpedo surveys water quality of Chicago beaches
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Researchers hauled a robotic torpedo out of Lake Michigan Thursday after it finished surveying 26 miles of Chicago shoreline. The bright yellow Ecomapper is a 5-foot long autonomous underwater vehicle with sensors in its nose.
Echo
Chicago woman circles Lake Michigan – in a rowboat
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Jenn Gibbons is raising money to support her rowing team of breast cancer survivors by attempting to row the 1,500 miles around Lake Michigan’s perimeter.
The Chicago Way of protecting citizens at the beach
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Is predictive modeling of Chicago’s beach health sufficient?
Just when is it safe to let your kids swim in Chicago waters?
Apparently you make the call.
Chicago communities win in a mixed Great Lakes news week
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Great Lakes news never stops – and this week brought us the good, the bad and the unknown.
From the planned shutdowns of archaic coal plants to the ongoing carp drama, there’s never a dull moment in the basin.
Wildlife
Could inducing a “dead zone” in Chicago canal block carp and other invaders?
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Researchers are studying if an induced dead zone could discourage invasive species from moving between the Great Lakes and Mississippi watersheds.