Despite decades-long efforts to clean up toxic hot spots along Michigan’s Great Lakes shores, a recent study shows that the health of waterbirds in some areas continues to suffer. It found that infertility and weakened immune systems were more prevalent at the contaminated sites than in birds in more pristine areas along Lake Superior at the St. Marys River. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
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