In Canada, watersheds are vast and often inaccessible, making it difficult to monitor the health of these ecosystems. A new tool helps communities collect data to assess the state of Canada’s rivers.
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Working waterfronts are a key link between consumers and seafood, but are increasingly threatened by developers. Policies need to ensure that waterfronts remain accessible to seafood harvesters.
A networked array of sensors could warn drinking water utilities in real time of harmful algal blooms and prevent public health crises.
When sea lampreys gained a foothold in the Great Lakes in the 1950s, these trout-sucking predators upended the ecosystem.
Warmer waters, heavier storms and nutrient pollution are a triple threat to Great Lakes cities’ drinking water. The solution: Cutting nutrient releases and installing systems to filter runoff.
Climate change is making extreme weather events, both hot and cold, more frequent across the Great Lakes region. Weatherizing low-income residents’ homes is an important way to prepare.
Releasing balloons at weddings and other celebrations is festive, until they break into pieces and become plastic pollution. A citizen science project is spotlighting the problem.
The Great Lakes contain reservoirs of legacy contaminants, mostly in their sediments, that are vulnerable to resuspension.
As climate change intensifies, much of the nation’s building stock will need upgrading to strengthen it against flooding, snowstorms and other weather hazards.
All the Great Lakes are at, or close to, record highs. But it is us, not the water, that needs to move out of the way.
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.
A climatologist who studies precipitation trends explains how climate change is projected to make flooding events in the Midwest more severe and more frequent.
Rwanda is a paradox – a ‘development miracle’ and an authoritarian state.
It’s cheaper to prevent biological invasions than to react after they happen. But it’s hard to detect invaders while there are still just a few of them. Knowing when and where to look can help.
A big spill in Michigan’s Straits of Mackinac could have devastating consequences. But does replacing the pipeline running beneath it make sense in a warming world?
The National Park Service is moving wolves to Isle Royale in Lake Superior to replenish a small pack on the island. Wolves prey on moose, which are overgrazing the island. It doesn’t hurt that they are charismatic.
Roughly 10,000 tons of plastic enter the Great Lakes every year, and scientists want to know where it ends up. There are some parallels to ocean plastics, but also important differences.
Ocean plastic has gained notoriety, but we’re starting to realize that microplastics pollute our freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems too.
The competition between the two authoritarian regimes has become a fact that, given the regional context, is here to last. It justifies repression and indefinitely postpones democratic expression.
The same conditions – ultimately tied to nutrient runoff – that created the damaging toxic blooms and dead zones in US waterways of recent years are forecast to return this year.
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Executive Director and Professor, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor
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Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, Western Michigan University
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Visiting Scholar, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor
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Chair, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Architecture, University at Buffalo
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Associate Professor for Energy Systems, Michigan State University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor and York University Research Chair in Global Change Biology, York University, Canada
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Professeur des universités, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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PhD Student, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Professor of Journalism and Chair, Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, Michigan State University
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Professor of Geology, University of Michigan-Dearborn
