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Oldest Coast Guard cutter with smallest crew and largest Great Lakes responsibility needs replacing
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The U.S. Coast Guard wants to retire its oldest cutter on the Great Lakes, the 57-year-old cutter Buckthorn.
Water
New maps for the Milwaukee Harbor shows what lies beneath the surface
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After four years in the making, a set of maps has been created to show what lies underneath the water in the Milwaukee Harbor and what restoration efforts could help get the harbor removed from the U.S. Environmental Protection Administration’s list of heavily contaminated Areas of Concern.
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Study shows aquatic landscape changes, human impact on Chicago-area plants, animal life
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Over the decades, wetlands and other water bodies in Cook County, Illinois, have decreased by a third, while swamps and marshes have been drained or converted into lakes and ponds, causing havoc for wildlife, according to a recent study by a group of graduate students and their professor at the University of Illinois Chicago.
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Great Lakes produce new record for waterspouts in one week
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The Great Lakes produced a new high record in its number of 232 waterspouts from Sept. 28 through Oct. 4.
Water
Researchers want invasive aquatic critters out of Great Lakes ballast water
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University of Wisconsin-Superior researchers are trying to figure out how to better regulate teeny-tiny invasive organisms that stow away on large vessels traversing the Great Lakes Basin.
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As toxic algal blooms impact Lake Erie, Michigan sees agriculture as main culprit
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Toxic algae blooming in Lake Erie is creating safety concerns for humans and aquatic life prompting the state of Michigan to work with farmers to reduce the phosphorus levels in field runoff.
aquaculture
Million dollar grant funds study of Great Lakes aquaculture
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A million-dollar grant to study aquaculture aims to boost the number of fish farms in the Great Lakes region.
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Michigan Attorney General wants Line 5 shut down until damage is investigated
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After an unknown incident caused Enbridge Energy to shut down the east leg of Line 5 last week, Attorney General Dana Nessel has requested that the entire pipeline be temporarily shut down until the damage is investigated further.
Water
Risks in Michigan’s urban environment
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This is the second part of a four-part series on Environmental Risk in Michigan: Past, Present and Future.
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Scientists to explore mysterious Lake Huron sinkholes
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The billions of years old microbes found in the sinkholes may hold the secret of how Earth went from inhabitable to habitable, sustaining plant and animal life.