Scientists studying the Great Lakes have found unsettling amounts of microplastics. Research shows that the tiny fragments of plastic pollution have high levels of contamination. According to a report ...
Traditionally, just about 40% of fish caught in the Great Lakes is used, and the majority is discarded as waste. The Great ...
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Scientists warn swimmers of risks lurking in the Great Lakes
People who eat fish from the Great Lakes should be cautious, too. Scientists warn swimmers of risks lurking in the Great ...
Through the murky waters of the Illinois River, scud have been moving steadily toward Lake Michigan. Scientists suggest the tiny crustaceans, an invasive species known as Apocorophium lacustre, pose a ...
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Great Lakes challenges range from whitefish collapse to plastic pollution, annual report shows
As issues like algal blooms and microplastics stymie regulators, the Great Lakes also saw improvements for other parts of the region. New technology is ridding large plastic pollution while piping ...
Johnny Thao (left) and Macee Khang (center, white sweatshirt) haul in a net full of rainbow smelt in May 2022 along Park Point on the shore of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minn. The Minnesota Department ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Waste not, want not. By way of a promise made by companies across the Great Lakes region, the practice of dumping commercial fish waste into landfills has effectively been ended, ...
More than a month after they poured from a semi-trailer on a west Michigan highway, little bits of white plastic appeared to ...
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