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Carbon monoxide poisoning causes 400 deaths a year nationwide.
In Michigan the death rate is declining.
Experts say that may be because of better detection of the deadly gas associated with malfunctioning furnaces.
A new invasive fly has Michigan researchers working to protect next season’s fruit crop.
Almost $20,000 of federal money went to Michigan State University for early detection and rapid response of the spotted wing drosophila.
Larry Lankton tracks the birth, boom and bust of the industry that once dominated the nation’s copper production. Gary Kaunonen focuses on the immigrants from Finland whoworked in the mines, and the strife between labor and management.
On Dec. 17, a NASA satellite sailed over southern Lake Michigan after winds whipped up a tendril-like sediment plume. The satellite captured an image of the plume that caught the eye of the people behind the NASA Earth Observatory, an online repository of satellite images, photographs and other illustrations of both natural phenomena and human impacts on the planet. The plume results from winds blowing in from the north that set the water in southern Lake Michigan circulating in a counter-clockwise pattern called a gyre. The movement stirs up sediment from the lakebed, according to the Observatory.
An invasive species of algae is threatening to disrupt the ecological balance in Michigan lakes and waterways.
It’s a form of seaweed called starry stonewort.
It can increase the potential for winterkill when lakes freeze over because the algae take up oxygen that fish need to survive.
The technique renewed controversy over the adequacy of government attempts to keep the voracious invaders out of the Great Lakes.
Today is the last selection of some favorite comments of 2010.
Here’s the second installment of 2010 favorite reader comments chosen by Echo staff.
Don’t miss the last round of staff picks tomorrow.
Annually the Echo staff collects our favorite comments of the previous year.
For the next three days we will publish a sample of the reader reactions that our reporters enjoyed in 2010.
Here’s the start:
Here’s a list of the most viewed Echo stories of 2010. In the world of social media, how much should readership trends influence what we provide? A lot? A little? Not at all?