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Study: Tons of plastic getting into Great Lakes
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A new study from Rochester Institute of Technology tracks how much plastic is getting into the Great Lakes.
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Great Lakes pollutant lurks in your laundry pile
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The United States and Canada are moving to ban microbeads — the tiny plastic bits in toothpaste and facewash that are big water polluters. Now scientists are focusing on a similar problem — and it’s lurking in your laundry pile.
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Court rules against Sleeping Bear trail critics
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Challengers to a segment of the 17-mile long trailway say the National Park Service failed to fully disclose the environmental impacts of the trail.
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What’s icy, metal and two miles long? A Great Lakes ice boom
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As ice forms on Lake Erie, it creates problems for the huge hydro-electric power plants downstream. To keep electricity flowing to millions of residents in the Northeast U.S. and Canada, power companies rig up a contraption called an ice boom.
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What will 2017 bring for the Great Lakes?
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The new presidential administration could mean big changes for the Great Lakes.
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Scientists raise alarm over invasive species decline in East African great lake
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Low value native species like dagaa are on the rise against dwindling stocks of high-value species like the Nile perch.
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Great Lakes targeted for offshore wind farms
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The nation’s first offshore wind energy project just started operating in Rhode Island waters, and developers are pushing ahead in another vast body of water: the Great Lakes. A six-turbine demonstration is underway on Lake Erie, about nine miles from Cleveland’s shoreline.
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Great Lakes year in review
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The Flint Water Crisis became a top story in 2016, but it wasn’t the only development involving Michigan water or the Great Lakes. Current State reviews these stories.
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No ferry? No problem. Winter on a Great Lakes island
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This Ohio village gets a lot quieter in the winter months.
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Wash, rinse, pollute, repeat
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Parts of our clothing ends up in the bellies of fish because of our laundering habits.