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Fifteen Great Lakes area educators worked with scientists for a week, deepening their understanding of the environment.
The hope is that the experience will ultimately benefit their students.
Today, a year after the oil spill on the Kalamazoo River in southern Michigan, it still poses a major cleanup challenge, the Associated Press reports. Enbridge Inc., the owner of the pipeline that caused the 800,000-gallon oil spill, has an Aug. 31 deadline given by the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up the oil. But the oil footprint is larger than anticipated and many pockets of oil may not have been identified. Regulators told the Associated Press that this could mean the cleanup may continue for a couple of years.
Seventeen state troopers who ordinarily patrol Michigan’s roads also serve underwater.
They recover bodies and crime weapons. But they also patrol shipwrecks, documenting features and artifacts.
New York has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to bar boaters from dumping treated sewage into Lake Ontario. Proposal affects even discharge of sewage treated with on-board devices.
You can find new images weekly on Scott Thomas’ photography blog.
Researchers are studying if an induced dead zone could discourage invasive species from moving between the Great Lakes and Mississippi watersheds.
Inquisitive about the Great Lakes? Submit or tweet your questions and they could be answered by scientists or other experts. Specialists on board the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s research vessel Lake Guardian are exploring Lake Superior this week. They are answering questions about the Great Lakes submitted by the public through a form starting today. Individuals can alternatively tweet questions to @EPAresearch using the #LakeSci11 hashtag. The Great Lakes are hugely important for individuals in the Great Lakes basin but they are also a national treasure, said Melissa Anley-Mills, member of the science communication staff for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
“A river is like a urinary tract.” And so begins my favorite paragraph in Alex Prud’homme’s new book, The Ripple Effect. The New York native tackles the state of freshwater, how it got here and where it’s headed.
Ohio gov’s veto avoids lawsuits from U.S. states and scorn from Canadians. Let’s hope Ohio lawmakers don’t override it with misplaced job creation zeal.
When you’re picking your summer reads for this season, why not stick to local and pick books with a Great Lakes flavor?
Here is Great Lakes themed summer reading list – what do you think we’ve missed?