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There are five Great Lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Lake Ontario. The Great Lakes system includes the St. Clair River (which links Lake Huron to Lake St. Clair), the Detroit River (which links Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie), the Niagara River (which links Lake Erie to Lake Ontario), and the Upper St. Lawrence River (which flows to the Atlantic Ocean). About 37-million people live in the Great Lakes Basin.
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Comeback of a Charismatic Native: Restoring the Atlantic Salmon to Lake Ontario
Managing Storm Runoff and Non-point Pollution in Major Metropolitan Areas
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WASHINGTON — If you want to be a stickler for journalistic ethics, I shouldn’t even be writing about the Great Lakes, because I have a huge bias — especially when it comes to Lake Michigan.
The highlight of my youthful summers were the few weeks my family shared a cottage atop a sand dune at Miller Beach, east of Gary, Ind. Many were the days we would pack a picnic... (more)
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The windswept Great Lakes hold huge promise for wind power, experts say. But a plan for an offshore wind farm in Lake Michigan is raising local ire.
Pentwater, Mich.
Halfway up Lake Michigan's eastern shore, wooded bluffs rise next to dunes, ice-fringed winter beaches, and steel-gray water stretching as far as the eye can see.
Pentwater, a resort town whose year-round... (more)
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Great Lakes trivia – which four of the five are bordered by both Canada and the United States, for example – is popular in elementary school geography lessons. But these interconnected lakes are under such threat that perhaps more pertinent questions should be asked – and not just of schoolchildren.
Such as: which cities dump untreated sewage into the Great Lakes, and... (more)
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It's a species that's been swimming in the Mississippi River for more than 30 years and now, it could threaten fishing areas near the Great Lakes. Asian carp are now making their way up north and have been spotted near Lake Michigan.
OSWEGO, N.Y. -- In Oswego, fishing is one of the main draws to the area. And tourism officials would like to keep it that way by keeping Asian... (more)
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The Genesee River watershed is one of five areas singled out for extra attention in a report released Sunday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The Obama administration has developed a five-year blueprint for rescuing the Great Lakes, a sprawling ecosystem plagued by toxic contamination, shrinking wildlife habitat and invasive species.
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Norwalk affects millions annually
Norwalk virus, a gut-wrenching fixture of Canadian winters whose source and seasonal nature have long been a mystery, may originate in drinking water drawn from lakes whose cool winter temperatures keep the microbe nicely preserved, suggests a new study.
University of Toronto researchers, comparing Norwalk outbreaks to river water flow... (more)
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5-year plan includes cleanup, wetland restoration and 'zero-tolerance policy' for invasive species
TRAVERSE CITY, MICH.–The Obama administration has developed a five-year blueprint for rescuing the Great Lakes, a sprawling ecosystem plagued by toxic contamination, shrinking wildlife habitat and invasive species.
The plan envisions spending more than $2.2 billion (U.S.)... (more)
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The lowly American eel may not be the cuddliest of creatures, but it is an important indicator species when it comes to the overall health of the Great Lakes.
The bad news is that it has all but disappeared.
The American eel -- which is entirely different from the lamprey eel, which is an imported parasite and an unwelcome predator -- has been evolutionarily unchanged for... (more)
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The voracious Asian carp will threaten Great Lake economies if it gets past Chicago
A row has blown up between several northern US states about how to block an especially voracious species of non-native fish from entering the Great Lakes and potentially devastating their multi-billion-dollar fishing industry.
Some experts believe that the Asian carp, which can grow up to... (more)
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