Fish
Michigan fish-sorter has global implications
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A $20 million test facility used to find how to keep undesirable fish from moving upstream without using a dam is coming to Michigan’s Boardman River.
bees
Seeking the building blocks of pollinator conservation
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Great Lakes researchers are seeking fundamental knowledge about pollinators like bumble bees and butterflies, hoping to reverse their decline.
Endangered wildlife
Giving white-nose the cold shoulder
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A new approach to combating white-nose syndrome involves constructing ventilation systems in bat dwellings.
endangered species
For one butterfly, Michigan may be its last, best hope
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The endangered Poweshiek skipperling butterfly, is now known to survive in the wild in only two places on earth: Michigan and Manitoba.
Wildlife
Harmful algae could kill invasive mussels
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A new idea to manage the spread of non-native mussels: kill them with another Great Lakes headache, the algae that sometimes blooms too much and threatens water quality.
Fish
Communicating science with art: how are fish and us alike?
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by Weiting Du
We like fish. And we are like fish. Two Michigan State University scientists recently displayed that similarity through art. Ingo Braasch and Julia Ganz, researchers at the university’s Department of Integrative Biology, compiled videos and photos taken during their research into artwork named “Life in Technicolor: The Art of Fish Development and Evolution.” They showed it at a recent MSU science-art exhibition. The art is a byproduct of differentiating types of cells to better study them.
Wildlife
Fish can hear boat noises and their ears are in trouble
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Researchers found that fish can hear human-created, noises and that their ears are harmed by them.
Wildlife
New challenge in fighting sea lampreys: warmer waters
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A new study in the Journal of Great Lakes Research found that warming waters may be making it harder to get rid of sea lampreys.
Wildlife
Study offers a bird’s eye view of a bird’s smell
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A new study points to the importance of how birds use their own odors to communicate.
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Killing an eagle, although no longer endangered, is still illegal
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Two men in Manistee County recently shot what they said they believed to be a goose. Their mistake may cost them $5,000 in fines and up to a year in prison.