Climate
Plant trees, store carbon, save the environment
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Michigan’s 3.9 million acres of state forests could be recruited for a fight to limit climate change by storing carbon emissions.
Air
Great Lakes states join emissions lawsuit
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Challengers say Trump air rules usurp state authority to address climate change.
CIGLR
Michigan’s Sleeping Bear gets hot wake up call
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The northwest part of Michigan’s lower peninsula has already warmed two degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times, double that in most of the rest of the country, according to an analysis of federal temperature data dating back to 1895.
Climate
Climate change is driving rapid shifts between high and low water levels on the Great Lakes
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Over the past 20 years, Great Lakes water levels have gone from sustained multiyear lows to multiyear highs. Climate change is accelerating the transition between dry phases and wet phases.
Climate
Canadian study: Wide water level swings, erratic snowfall in store for Great Lakes
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The first comprehensive look at climate change impacts on Canada says the country is warming twice as fast as much of the rest of the world.
Climate change
Deadly fish virus returns to northern Michigan hatchery
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The Marquette State Fish Hatchery lost around 100,000 fish in 2012 to the disease, according to a new publication in the American Fisheries Society. Similar losses happened again in 2017.
Climate change
U.S., Canadian coast guards break ice on shared waters
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The economic value of the cargo they helped move last winter is estimated at $875 million.
Climate change
Saving the great Northwoods may require transforming it
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As a warming climate transforms forests across the northern Great Lakes, scientists working in the iconic Minnesotan landscape are embracing the change.
Climate
Lake Michigan climate change perceptions are polarized, study shows
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Cold legacy: The polar vortex left behind more than just the memory of a frigid winter.