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By Kate Golden
Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
Advice from experts. To limit BPA exposure, be careful with plastics used with food. Heat food in glassware and carry stainless steel bottles. Discard scratched plastic, and don’t buy used plastic containers. Consider eating less canned food, since can liners may contain BPA.
Mr. Great Lakes (Jeff Kart) reports from Bay City, Michigan’s Delta College Q-90.1 FM.
This week Kart discusses minor league baseball team the Great Lakes Loons, plans for state forest land and woody debris in the Pigeon River. Text at Mr Great Lakes
Sand traps were constructed worldwide to save fish from excessive sand in freshwater streams. But Michigan Department of Natural Resources reserchers doubt their benefit.
Some sand traps could even harm river ecosystems, experts say.
By Rosemary Bray
The impact of clothing pollution
The clothes you buy may have a negative impact on the environment, and local businesses in Duluth, Minn. are educating shoppers on clothing pollution. Clothing pollution is “the environmental cost of how we are consuming clothing,” according to Mindy Granley, sustainability coordinator at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Many people fail to consider the environmental cost that consumers are causing when they go shopping, said Mindy Granley,
“We should care about our environment,” she said. “Each choice we make has an impact beyond our wallet.”
Yet, the impact that shopping has on the environment can be relieved through clothing sustainability, Granley said.
This photo was taken from the International Space Station by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, commander of Expedition 35. He posted several photos on May 5 to his Twitter account showing how the springtime water flows in the Great Lakes. Lakes Huron, Erie and Ontario are featured in the photo above.
While playing small ball is necessary, we should reach higher. If the Great Lakes region was a country, it would have the fourth largest economy in the world.
It deserves world-class solutions to its problems.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said its $9 million program is stocking 19 million fish — 370 tons — including eight trout and salmon species and four cool-water species, including walleye and muskellunge.
Lake St. Clair was recently named the best bass lake in the country by Bassmaster Magazine. Many bass anglers considered St. Clair to be the underdog, but according to Bassmaster editor James Hall, an emerging largemouth fishery helped it secure the top spot. “It is truly amazing how much a fishery can change in the span of 12 months,” Hall said in a release.
The ethanol industry is looking to recover from its first national decline in 15 years, due in part to drought-damaged corn crops in Michigan, Indiana and Illinois.
Ever dream of owning a National Landmark? For $539,900, that dream could become a reality. One of the oldest lighthouses on the St. Lawrence River is up for sale, according to the Watertown Daily Times. Crossover Island rests in the St.