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Latest Daily News
Data centers in Michigan: What you need to know
As data centers proliferate across the Great Lakes, driven by AI’s soaring demands, communities face a dual reality: economic growth and environmental challenges. Read the full story by Planet Detroit.
Here are Ontario’s proposed new conservation authorities
Ontario plans to merge thirty-six conservation authorities to seven to improve efficiencies for the organizations that monitor water levels and erosion, manage recreation, and teach people about the environment. Read the full story by CBC News.
Upstate NY creek stocked with ‘Great Lakes dinosaur’ in plan to restore Lake Erie population
A recent lake sturgeon stocking effort took place in the Cattaraugus Creek by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. Read the full story by Syracuse.com.
From Lake Tawas to a wild rice camp: how manoomin is harvested by Michigan Indigenous communities
Every year as summer ends, Indigenous Michiganders head out onto lakes and rivers to collect wild rice, a staple food with cultural significance to these communities. Read the full story by WKAR-TV – East Lansing, MI.
Which Great Lake creates the most snow?
As cold air rushes over the Great Lakes in late fall and early winter, the ingredients for powerful snowstorms fall into place. Lake Erie may be the smallest of the Great Lakes, but it packs the biggest winter punch. Read the full story by WTOL-TV – Toledo, OH.
Issues of the Environment: Federal government shutdown impacting Great Lakes research in Ann Arbor
On October 1, the federal government shutdown began, halting many research projects tied to federal agencies, including those vital to the University of Michigan’s Great Lakes programs. The Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research works in partnership with NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory and depends on federal collaboration for critical work on water quality, algal blooms, and regional climate impacts. Read the full story by WEMU – Ypsilanti, MI.
Muck runs amok in Lake St. Clair
A type of algae called M. wollei appeared in Lake St. Clair in 2010. It’s vexing residents. Local, state, and federal agencies have a plan to control it. Read the full story by WDET – Detroit, MI.
There’s a hidden collection of Great Lakes artifacts in Milwaukee’s Central Library
Hidden in the Milwaukee Public Library’s Central Library is a little-known collection of artifacts related to ships that have traversed the Great Lakes for the past 400 years — including the legendary SS Edmund Fitzgerald. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Remembering the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald on the 50th anniversary of its sinking
50 years ago on Monday, one of the most “mysterious and controversial” of all shipwrecks on the Great Lakes took place 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan, taking the lives of 29 crew members. Read the full story by WZZM-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.
New era of confrontation between energy and water opens in Great Lakes
A new era of electrical generation and power demand is taking shape across the eight states of the Great Lakes basin – and with it come potentially treacherous consequences for the region’s environment and its world-leading supply of clean, fresh water. Read the full story by Circle of Blue.