Climate
Will the whole country descend upon Michigan in 2100?
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Experts are skeptical.
Climate
The state of the Great Lakes: What to expect from climate change
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The first in a series of stories on what the Great Lakes region can expect from climate change in the not-so-far-off future.
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Model your watershed with free online app
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Model My Watershed is an app being used by teachers, students, land use planners, conservationists and more to get a sense of how land use changes the health of specific watersheds.
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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.
Echo
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.
Asian carp
Michigan seeks ‘Eureka!’ cry on carp control
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The state is pursuing a game show technique increasingly used to solve difficult natural resource and other problems. Will it be enough to prompt someone to run naked down the street?
Catch of the Day
VIDEO: Why does it take so long to reduce the level of Lake Ontario?
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The International Joint Commission is increasing outflows from a dam in hopes of lowering Lake Ontario water levels. How long will it take to make a difference?
dam
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.