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Inviting invasives to the digital world
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Great Lakes researchers are building a time machine to help fight freshwater invasive species.
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Mr. Great Lakes: Suggest water monitoring sites
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Also: toxic chemicals found in some popular Halloween costumes, accessories and party supplies.
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Can you gamify Great Lakes news?
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A story about illegal fishing in West Africa is coupled with an interactive web game. It lets you play the role of a reporter tracking down the story.
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Risk and resilience in the Great Lakes Basin
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The regional risks are many, but so is the resilience.
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Refuge picked for livability project; invasives sold at bait shops
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Click the audio for details and Mr. Great Lakes for the text. Jeff Kart is Mr. Great Lakes and heard at 9 a.m. Fridays in Bay City, Mich., on Delta College Q-90.1 FM NPR and is rebroadcast on Great Lakes Echo with permission.
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Michigan’s environment makes front pages, but not political front burner
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Newspapers reveal worries about fish, floods, farms, mines, trails, energy and Roscoe the deer.
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Environmental group gives Michigan legislature an ‘incomplete’ grade
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It also rated every Michigan legislator individually after comparing voting records to the organization’s stated goals.
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New NWF chief to focus on education, outreach, engagement
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The National Wildlife Federation has a new president and CEO. Collin O’Mara was recently in Michigan for an environmental tour of the Detroit Area, and stopped by Current State. For a CEO, he’s fairly young at 30 years old. Current State’s Melissa Benmark asked him what environmental values he brings to this position that might be different than someone in their fifties or sixties. O’Mara says he’s going to try engaging more citizens with nature in a personal way in order to overcome urgent conservation challenges.
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Former Echo reporter scores another national award, gives success formula
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A former Echo writer has won national recognition for a series of environmental stories about the Great Lakes. Brian Bienkowski, now a reporter and editor at Environmental Health News, received second place in a beat reporting category in the contest sponsored by the national Society of Environmental Journalists. The series is called Stories of the Great Lakes’ People, Places and Creatures. Bienkowski, a 2012 graduate of the Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, also received the same award in the same contest last year. While at MSU, he received the center’s Rachel Carson Award for outstanding environmental journalism graduate student.