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A field guide for fruit flies
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New book “Drosophilids of the Midwest and Northeast” gives fruit flies overdue accolades.
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Historian honors Detroit architect in new book
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Wirt Rowland has been called the father of the modern skyscraper. He left his mark especially on the city of Detroit, designing five of the behemoths marking the city skyline.
Wildlife
A frog concert after dark
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Citizen scientists survey the state’s wetlands, listening to male frogs and toads croak their pick-up lines into the dark.
Catch of the Day
River lovers rally in Grand Rapids
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River Network’s annual River Rally conference took place this week.
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Two species – one to preserve, one to control – challenge removal of dam on Michigan’s Grand River
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The Sixth Street Dam in Grand Rapids used to be a valuable tool in log transportation, but its planned removal now poses an environmental risk by endangering snuffbox mussels and potentially allowing the invasive sea lamprey to spread.
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This dam removal tool moves data rather than cement
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Dam removal is on an upward trend. A new tool helps to figure out which should go first.
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Old dams threaten downstream life
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Aging dams in high-hazard locations have the potential to do great harm to the environment and to human life.
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Great Lakes scientists team up to track fish with GLATOS
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The Great Lakes Acoustic Telemetry Observation Systems, or GLATOS, is a network of researchers sharing fish-tracking data from across the Great Lakes basin.
Wildlife
Invasive species gang up on native crayfish
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Invasive mussels and crayfish in the Great Lakes are supporting each other to the detriment of the native crayfish.
Endangered wildlife
Wastewater deadzone kills mussels
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An extreme example in an Ontario river shows these mollusks are more sensitive to pollution than we knew.