Photo Friday
Photo Friday: Icy Lake Erie
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It’s mostly melted now, but an unusually cold winter had Lake Erie’s ice cover at over 90 percent.
Fish
Video: slow-motion sturgeon feeding
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Sturgeons project their jawbones from their skulls, creating the suction they need to vacuum food from lake beds.
Air
Solid water keeps liquid from forming vapor
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Earlier ice on Lake Erie inhibits the formation of lake effect clouds.
Air
Satellite reveals van Gogh got it right
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Did Mother Nature look over van Gogh’s shoulder for this one? Or is it the other way around?
Forests
Pennsylvania’s forest primeval
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Scenes from Hearts Content in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest.
Videos
Video: Lake Erie algae blooms hurt local economy
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Businesses along western Lake Erie are hurting from dwindling tourism as more anglers avoid the lake, said charter fisherman Dean Thompson. His own business has dropped 40 percent this year.
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Photo Friday: Views of a glacier-shaped New York park
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Take a look at this park named for one of the United States’s most obscure presidents.
Echo
Photo Friday: Harbor town Lexington, Michigan has charm and history
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The town is a designated “harbor of refuge” by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Photo Friday
Photo Friday: Seining for invasive fish on Grand Traverse Bay, Michigan
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Fisheries biologist Steve Hensler of the Cerulean Center recently demonstrated one way in which professional and citizen scientists search together for invasive fish in Lake Michigan.
Nearshore
Photo Friday: Common “Greatness” shared in African and American lakes
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The sights on the shores of Africa’s Lake Malawi differ slightly from those on our Great Lakes (you may find a crocodile or two), but there are similarities as well.