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New finding: Even when Lake Erie’s algae leaves, health threat remains
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Scientists have recently discovered that even when ugly algae leaves the water it can leave behind a deadly legacy: toxins capable of damaging your central nervous system.
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The Great Lakes could benefit most from Obama’s climate change aim
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The Great Lakes could benefit from Obama’s plan for renewable energy investments, mitigation efforts and job creation.
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Energy debates play out on the Great Lakes nearshore
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The Detroit to Cleveland corridor has one of the region’s most densely populated shorelines.
All those people and the area’s myriad of water, habitat, farm and beach issues make it home to some of the nation’s greatest energy debates.
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Zombies promote Great Lakes nearshore environment
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Birders, boaters, hikers, fishermen, beach lovers, and swimmers all have something in common: They draw attention to Great Lakes ecology through their activities at or near the shoreline. Now they have zombies helping them out. In what might be one of the wackiest and most unorthodox ways of getting people to reconnect with nature, early (cheaper) registration for an event billed as the Lake Eerie (not a typo, folks) Zombie Mud Run ends June 30. The race is Sept. 14 at East Sandusky Bay Erie Metropark in Sandusky, Ohio.
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Random thoughts while waiting for Great Lakes Algae Watch 2013 to begin
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Summer duty: Mapping progress, helping shorebirds and bracing for algae.
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Assessing risk to the Great Lakes nearshore
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More and more, I see a greater dependence on the imperfect science of risk assessment in emerging Great Lakes issues. Studied intensely for years at Harvard University and other leading institutions, risk assessment is something we deal with in many aspects of life even if we don’t stop to think about it.
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White smoke and Great Lakes: Does new pope bring new hope?
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Two leadership changes with significant implications: A pope who identifies with St. Francis of Assisi and an EPA administrator identified as a bulldog on air pollution.
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Ahead for the new year: Federal leadership, funding shifts with Great Lakes impacts
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A new EPA Administrator and a new Secretary of State are key positions that will affect the Great Lakes region.
Those appointments may say a lot about the future of climate change policy.
Combine them with post fiscal cliff funding battles and 2013 is shaping up to be yet another crossroads for federal policy regrading the Great Lakes.
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National Parks protect Great Lakes nearshore land and water
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Nearshore health is a reflection of positive land use.
The Dust Bowl poses important questions and National Parks provide important answers for the Great Lakes region.
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Despite 2012 algae break feds invest in longterm Great Lakes controls
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Is it a political risk for an administration to spend nearly $6 million during an election year on a near-shore issue that was practically non-existent that same summer?
Not when that issue is Great Lakes algae.