Catch of the Day
Great Lakes ice in retreat
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Use this nifty slider tool to see the dramatic change in three weeks.
Water
Photo Friday: Lake Erie’s ice boom
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This week Echo pulls a recent image along the Niagara River from a NASA earth observation satellite.
Energy
Grassland birds hold stock in the future of biofuels
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Birds stand to gain valuable grassland habitat if the appetite to balance conservation and biofuel production continues gaining support in scientific circles.
Water
Great Lakes settle in for the deep freeze
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This week’s subzero temperatures have the Great Lakes nearing record levels of ice coverage.
Echo
Photo Friday: Eastern Canada lights up the St. Lawrence
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station snapped midwinter photos to display the day-to-night changes along the St. Lawrence River.
Water
Climate affects how the Great Lakes grow and flow
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A recent report by the U.S. Geological Survey helps land managers cope with the seasonal changes resulting from climate change in the Lake Michigan basin.
Land
When fire changes the landscape
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Two years after the Duck Lake fire swept through 21,000 acres in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, experts this spring will assess the need for new plantings to restore the primarily jack pine forest.
Air
Top uses for remote sensing in conservation
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Scientists recently identified the top ways to boost awareness of global conservation with satellites and drones.
Wildlife
Sonar maps Lake Huron trout habitat
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Maritime archeologists are swapping shipwreck surveys for trout habitat mapping in Lake Huron’s Sixth Fathom Bank, an ancestral spawning ground for lake trout.