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The growing environmental and health risks posed by microplastics can only be addressed by reducing the amount of plastic produced and ensuring that all of it is recycled.
In winter 2023-24, the Great Lakes’ ice cover was near record lows, peaking at just 16%. Researchers explain how diminishing ice could have consequences for fisheries, and how species are evolving.
Mapping where water once flowed is important for managing flood risk today in Detroit and elsewhere.
Increasing awareness of the dangers ‘forever chemical’ road salts pose to our fresh water systems highlights the urgent importance of finding new approaches to de-icing our roads.
A scholar works to document a dialect of the Ojibwe language that was spoken by his grandmother in the Great Lakes region.
The Peach Blossom Jellyfish is an invasive species in Canada, and a lack of data is hampering efforts to control populations.
According to a new UN report, invasive species do more than US$423 billion in damage worldwide every year. Four articles explore examples, from mollusks to poisonous fish.
Even ‘climate havens’ face a riskier future, and infrastructure often isn’t built to handle climate change. But there are steps cities can take to prepare.
A pipeline that has carried Canadian oil and gas across Wisconsin and Michigan for 70 years has become a symbol of fossil fuel politics and a test of local regulatory power.
Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot passed away on May 1. His legacy includes songs that memorialize tragic shipping disasters and the 1968 Detroit Uprising.
Snowstorms that sweep across the Great Lakes can dump several feet of snow on the other side. A climate scientists explains why.
Ballast water release from ocean vessels has been a major source of invasive species in the Great Lakes for over 60 years.
Wetlands can help limit the spread of the voracious round goby, an invasive species that has infiltrated the Great Lakes and has become widespread in the St. Lawrence River.
Zebra and quagga mussels entered the Great Lakes in large ships’ ballast water. Now, local boaters and anglers are spreading them into the southern and western US.
Climate change is causing the deep waters in parts of the St. Lawrence River to lose their oxygen, and it’s damaging the health of the ecosystem.
Rough surf and nearshore currents lead to about 50 drowning fatalities annually in the Great Lakes.
Cleaning up the Great Lakes was a big job when the US and Canada undertook it in 1972. Today it’s far more challenging.
The deal undermines every human being’s right to seek asylum and commitments enshrined in the Refugee Convention.
Lakes in the northern hemisphere are rapidly losing their ice cover due to rising greenhouse gas emissions. The only way to preserve lake ice is to limit GHG emissions and slow down climate change.
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Director and Professor, 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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Visiting Scholar, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor
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Assistant Professor of Architecture, University at Buffalo
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Professor of Biogeochemistry and Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Ecohydrology, University of Waterloo
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Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, Western Michigan University
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Research Associate Professor, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo
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Knowledge Mobilization Specialist, University of Waterloo
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Professor Emeritus of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Senior Research Fellow in Aquatic Ecology, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Communication and Journalism, University of St. Thomas
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Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
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Researcher at the Center for Social Solutions, University of Michigan
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Microbiology, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
