Wildlife
Climate signals boreal bird movement
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Citizen science research is helping tell the story of one small songbird and its offbeat migration behavior.
Air
Photo Friday: mammatus clouds
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A photo submission captures the lobe-like mammatus clouds after a Chicago storm.
Land
American elm reintroduction to restore polluted streams
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U.S. Forest Service researchers are calling on the once-abundant American elm to improve soil and water quality along New York’s Finger Lakes streams.
Water
International agency seeks Great Lakes water protection comments
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Submit Great Lakes water protection comments to The International Joint Commission by Tuesday.
Water
Photo Friday: First entry in U.S. Canadian border challenge
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A submission for the Great Lakes border challenge captures a colorful island vista along the Ohio-Ontario border.
Land
Great Lakes border challenge
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Provide an image illustrating the US/Canada border relationship and we’ll run it in an Echo post.
Land
Food Fix: Ethical eating
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This new Food Fix podcast tackles food and philosophy, a theme in Paul Thompson’s latest book: From Field to Fork.
Water
International agency seeks Great Lakes water protection comments
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The International Joint Commission, a binational agency that advises the US and Canada on shared environmental issues, is collecting comments on its draft 10-year review of water protection in the Great Lakes.
Nearshore
From mapmakers to moles, North Shore traces a Superior coast legacy
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A decade of deep archival research and on-the-ground observation lends perspective to a new environmental history in this new book.
Land
New online tool opens historic maps database to the public
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The new USGS topoView app allows anyone to access and download topographic maps — nearly 180,000 of them — dating back to the 1880s.