Current Environmental News

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High Great Lakes water levels cause havoc across Michigan

Tuesday, August 13, 2019 (8 reads)

High water has hit Michigan with devastation and misery. Beaches have disappeared, roads, bridges and parks have closed and swift currents have swept loved ones away. Read the full story by MLive.

A glass of cold, clear – plastic? No thanks

Thursday, August 08, 2019 (9 reads)

In 2016, researchers from the Rochester Institute of Technology found that 22 million pounds of plastic debris enter the Great Lakes every year from the United States and Canada. Most people don’t need to wait on the scientists to know they don’t want to eat or drink plastic. The time to start screening plastics out of the environment is now. Read the full story by the Chicago Sun-Times.

Proposed study would look at higher precipitation levels in the Great Lakes region

Thursday, August 01, 2019 (8 reads)

A bipartisan group of representatives from New York is trying to pass legislation that would fund a study that could help states address the issue of rising water levels in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by NPR news.

These devices are catching litter before it ends up in lakes and rivers

Wednesday, July 24, 2019 (47 reads)

London, Ontario is piloting a new device to keep litter from washing into the city's 32,000 catch basins and into local rivers and lakes.The LittaTrap is a mesh basket that's inserted into a catch basin to collect cigarette butts, coffee cups and litter that would otherwise end up in the sewer system.

Large algae bloom in Lake Erie predicted for 2019

Monday, July 22, 2019 (69 reads)

NOAA and its research partners are predicting that the western Lake Erie will experience a large harmful algal bloom (HAB) this summer.