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A new study says that Great Lakes fish consumption advisories would be more restrictive if regulators considered how multiple contaminants could combine into a greater health threat.
An Asian carp was discovered just miles away from Lake Michigan, past electric barriers meant to stop them.
The lake sturgeon is a giant fish–up to eight feet long and 800 pounds. Scientists are trying to help it thrive in the Great Lakes. But President Trump’s 2018 budget cuts funding for that work.
In part two of Great Lakes Today’s series on President Trump’s 2018 budget, we travel to the southern tip of Lake Michigan. Researchers there are trying to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes, but proposed budget cuts could limit their work.
They’re releasing a series of anti-carp videos throughout the summer.
Low water hinders the water mammals from entering and leaving their homes and it promotes invasive cattail growth. A new regulation plan that more closely mimics historic water fluctuations could create more suitable habitat, according to a recent study.
The success story of the American bald eagle’s comeback is widely celebrated, but lead poisoning is a serious threat to the species.
What do habitat destruction, cats and glass all have in common? They threaten songbirds. But solutions exist.
New book “Drosophilids of the Midwest and Northeast” gives fruit flies overdue accolades.
Citizen scientists survey the state’s wetlands, listening to male frogs and toads croak their pick-up lines into the dark.