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Green Energy Needs Lots of Water

In America's efforts to deal with Peak Oil, we may come up against Peak Water more quickly than imagined. University of Texas professor Michael Webber, an environmental policy specialist, told the...

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Wisconsin Signs Great Lakes Compact

I know. It's a snore. But it is an important snore, another step toward protecting one of the continent's greatest resources. Why? Read this editorial from the Oshkosh Northwestern:

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Nevada Water Authority Executive Proposes High-Stakes Mississippi River...

Atlantic City, New Jersey casino Image credit:NJ.com The Las Vegas Review-Journal cites the general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority saying 'now may be the time to take a serious look at...

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Zebra Mussels (and Lots of Other Species) Invading Great Lakes and No One Can...

Out of the 185 invasive species in and around the Great Lakes, zebra mussels are posing a painful problem. The mussels have sharp shells and a tendency to slice up the feet of beach-goers. The mussels...

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NASA Says Moon May Have More Water than the Great Lakes

The North American Great Lakes have some competition. digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/06/nasa-says-moon-may-have-more-water-than-great-lakes.php'; The moon. Yes, that old thing in the...

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Walleye Bones Can 'Hear' the Sound of Overfishing

A university study on Lake Erie walleye may help scientists spot rivers that are at risk of overfishing. Researchers at Ohio State analyzed chemicals found in walleye ear bones, and were able to...

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'Big UP Deal' Protects 271,000 Acres in Michigan

The Nature Conservancy has finally closed on a "Big UP Deal" that took 10 years and $58 million, and will protect and limit development on 271,000 acres in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. If

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U.S. Asian Carp Czar Says Poison, Genetic Engineering Among Solutions

The Obama administration loves its czars almost as much as the media loves using the title. So here goes: The U.S. Asian Carp Czar, also known as John Goss, says he has a multi-pronged strategy to...

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Illinois Spending $2M to Ship Asian Carp Back to China

If you can't beat 'em, ship 'em. The state of Illinois is spending $2 million to ship invasive Asian carp back to China, where they're considered a delicacy. In Illinois, and the Great Lakes region,...

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Pesticidal Proteins (Bt) From GM Corn Plants Are Now Common In Midwest Streams

Common sense tells us that, following corn harvest, fragments of corn cobs, leaves, stalks, silk, and pollen may be blown by the wind or carried across the land

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Asian Carp Study Largest Since Reversal of Chicago River

This $2 million project, funded mostly with private money, is billed as the most comprehensive look at the Chicago waterway system since the reversal of the Chicago River more than 100 years ago. This

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Whales Burp Plastic in the Great Lakes

Just what the Great Lakes needs, more aquatic invasives. We're worrying about Asian carp and now we have whales? Whales in the Great Lakes, on Lake Superior? Well, "whale burps" have been found

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Asian Carp Almost Migrate from U.S. to Canada, in a Big Truck

How will invasive Asian carp enter the Great Lakes? Via the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, maybe another flood? They almost made it via a semi-tractor trailer crossing the Ambassador Bridge from the...

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Sword-Swinging Ninjas On Skis Go After Asian Carp (Video)

Asian carp, meet your worst nightmare. Not poison. Not an electric barrier, or a predator from your native land. No, this is good ol' American ingenuity. With a touch of Ted Nugent, or maybe Chuck...

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Ontario Reacts to Live Asian Carp Spilled in River

This was an actual test. But only a test. Like those emergency tones you hear on your TV when a storm is approaching. Officials in Ontario, Canada, think the possibility of a live Asian carp invasion...

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It's Not Just Asian Carp: U.S. Identifies 40 High-Risk Species

Concerned about Asian carp? Meet the invasive cousins, you might say, of the monster fish. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a white paper on 40 high-risk species to watch out for,

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Feds Hiring Unemployed for Great Lakes Cleanup

Who says we have to choose between jobs and the environment? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is starting a sort of Public Works program for the Great Lakes --- prioritizing funding for...

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Toxic Algae Bloom in Lake Erie Worst in Decades

Blooming Lake Erie. Photo Credit: NASA EO Pure Michigan is a slogan used in the Great Lakes State, to bring in tourists and celebrate the beauty of nature. You probably won't be seeing these images in...

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Invasive? Bloody Red Shrimp Are Supper for Great Lakes Fish

Bloody red shrimp are invasive, but yummy for some native Great Lakes fish. A first-time find by Canadian researchers.

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New Flame Retardants as Bad as Old Flame Retardants

Flame retardants build up in the DNA of Great Lakes fish. Not cool.

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Too Far? New Plan to Separate Basins, Stop Asian Carp, Costs Billions (Video)

Great Lakes residents would be paying this off for 47 years ... but reaping the benefits for just as long.

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SOM Architects Call for a 100 Year Vision for the Great Lakes

The availability and quality of fresh water to sustain a radically urbanizing world is unquestionably a core issue of our time and requires holistic environmental thinking at an unprecedented scale

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The Decolonizing Diet Project is Teaching Volunteers to Eat Like Native...

How big of a locavore are you? Could you eat only foods that were available to Native Americans before 1600?

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US and Canada Sign New Great Lakes Accord

It's been forty years since Nixon and Trudeau signed the original; it's time for an update.

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The Great Lakes vacationing in... Europe

Sometimes the best way to get an idea of the scale of something is to change the context.

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Body wash beads contaminate the Great Lakes

Exfoliating body wash may make you clean, but it's making the lake water dirty.

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How can we deal with the Asian Carp invasion?

A major report just released offers expensive technological solutions. We reivew options ranging from barriers to bow-hunting.

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Great Lakes days away from record ice cover

This long, cold winter has created the most ice cover on the Great Lakes in 20 years—and with ice cover usually at its peak in mid-March, there's still time for records to be broken.

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Illinois passes first microbead ban in the world

Finally one state is putting a stop to the "exfoliocean." Hopefully others will follow its lead, forcing companies to adopt eco-friendly alternatives.

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The most contaminated birds on the planet: Michigan's bald eagles are full of...

Well, at least the most iconic animal in the United States won't catch on fire too easily...

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