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Photo Friday

Echo runs images from the Great Lakes region on Fridays. Most submissions come from readers. Submit one to GreatLakesEcho@gmail.com. Include your name, a brief description of the image, when it was taken and any unusual circumstances involved in taking it.

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Middle Bass Island, OH

Photo Friday: First entry in U.S. Canadian border challenge

By Kevin Duffy | June 26, 2015

A submission for the Great Lakes border challenge captures a colorful island vista along the Ohio-Ontario border.

International Bridge
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Great Lakes border challenge

By Kevin Duffy | June 19, 2015

Provide an image illustrating the US/Canada border relationship and we’ll run it in an Echo post.

Catch of the Day

Great Lakes ice in retreat

By Kevin Duffy | March 20, 2015

Use this nifty slider tool to see the dramatic change in three weeks.

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Photo Friday: Lake Erie’s ice boom

By Kevin Duffy | March 6, 2015

This week Echo pulls a recent image along the Niagara River from a NASA earth observation satellite.

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Photo Friday: Eastern Canada lights up the St. Lawrence

By Kevin Duffy | February 20, 2015

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station snapped midwinter photos to display the day-to-night changes along the St. Lawrence River.

Climate

Photo Friday: Chicago ice

By Gary Wilson | January 23, 2015

Ice flows in the Chicago River.

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Photo Friday: Chicago’s Loop from space

By David Poulson | January 16, 2015

Shadows of buildings detected from space station.

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Photo Friday: Wall that once split contaminated river removed

By Great Lakes Echo | November 14, 2014

A milestone for St. Louis! Construction crews are in the process of removing a metal sheet pile wall from the Pine River near the Velsicol superfund site.

Recreation

Photo Friday: Watershed groups compete in dragon boat race

By Jenna Chapman | September 26, 2014

Members of three organizations that work to preserve Michigan’s Grand River recently took home a second place in the Capital City Dragon Boat race.

Wildlife

Photo Friday: Restoration includes snake hibernaculum

By Guest Contributor | September 5, 2014
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About Great Lakes Echo

Environmental news of the Great Lakes region from the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University.

  • Michigan allocates $77 million to clean thousands of contaminated sites

    By Clara Lincolnhol Michigan is pouring $77 million into clean-up of contaminated abandoned real estate such as former factories. The director of the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy says the goal is to make the cleaned-up sites safe for housing, commercial developments and other uses.

  • Winter makes curved roads dangerous; researchers seek solutions

    By Eric Freedman Flashing light on warning signs near curves can slow drivers and reduce the odds of a crash during winter weather conditions, says a new study by Michigan State University engineers.

  • The cover of “Dead Moose on Isle Royale: Off Trail with the Citizen Scientists of the Wolf-Moose Project." The cover is moose antlers on the ground.
    Great Lakes books for your holiday gift list 

    By Eric Freedman   Looking for a holiday gift for a reader who loves the Great Lakes? Here are five prospects to consider – and what our reporters learned from interviewing their authors this year.

  • A side-by-side of the historic Portage Canal and modern Portage Canal from an aerial view.
    Restoration of historical site improves quality of life for Portage, Wisconsin residents

    By Joshua Kim Following the completion of segments 1 and 2 of the Portage Canal, local residents and visitors can use the historic site and its amenities following years of disrepair.

  • What herring gulls tell us about plastic pollution

    By Victoria Witke Christina Petalas, a doctoral student McGill University, studies herring gulls to learn about plastic pollution near the St. Lawrence River. Across two studies, she found plastic additives in every bird sampled, which could have human health consequences.

  • Scientists update geological map of northern Wisconsin, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula 

    By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva The U.S. Geological Survey has began large-scale low-level airplane flights over Michigan's Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin to obtain high-resolution data on subsurface mineral structures and bedrock composition. The data will be used to create two- and three-dimensional maps to better understand the geological structure at depths of about 10,000 feet.

  • ‘Refusal is insisting on your own terms’: Indigenous activism in the Midwest

    By Isabella Figueroa Nogueira “Indigenous Activism in the Midwest: Refusal, Resurgence and Resisting Settler Colonialism” explores how Dakota and Anishinaabe communities in Minnesota continue their relationships to the land and challenge dominant settler narratives about ownership, belonging and identity.

  • Cannabis workers are developing job-related asthma and some have died, study says

    By Clara Lincolnhol New research says workers picking, grinding and packaging cannabis are developing workplace-related asthma, and two deaths have occurred so far.

  • Swiss researcher studies ‘abandonment tourism’ in Detroit

    By Camila Bello Castro A recent case study of a former “abandonment tourism” business in Detroit found a disconnect between the lived experience of many city residents and the lives of the tour participants who were generally white, younger and more international than most Detroiters and generally first-time visitors to the city.

  • Wolves hunt beavers in Isle Royale National Park, changing the ecosystem

    By Akia Thrower A new study reveals how gray wolves in Isle Royale National Park seasonally alter their habitat preferences to align with beavers’ habitat preferences, a shift that might have implications for the island’s ecosystem.

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