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Restoring the Great Lakes: After 50 years of US-Canada joint efforts, some success and lots of unfinished business

The Great Lakes cover nearly 95,000 square miles (250,000 square kilometers) and hold over 20% of Earth’s surface fresh water. More than 30 million people in the U.S. and Canada rely on them for drinking water. The lakes support a multibillion-dollar maritime economy, and the lands around them provided many…

The Conversation

Vast swath of US is at risk of summer blackouts, regulator warns

A vast swath of North America from the Great Lakes to the West Coast is at risk of blackouts this summer as heat, drought, shuttered power plants and supply chain woes strain the electric grid. Power supplies in much of the U.S. and part of Canada will be stretched, with…

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Method Man's TICAL Hits Michigan Shelves Via Partnership With Glorious Cannabis Co.

Method Man’s TICAL, or Taking into Consideration All Lives brand and its exclusive infused pre-roll strain ‘Sweet Island Skunk’ is coming to Michigan starting Tuesday, May 17. TICAL partnered with Glorious Cannabis Co. out of Rochester Hills to launch cannabis products in the Great Lakes State.

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Auto review: Cadillac Escalade Diesel is a vessel fit for a king

CHARLEVOIX, Michigan — Like a Great Lakes passenger ship, the bow of my Cadillac Escalade cut through the fog of an April snow shower. Sure-footed, diesel-powered, on autopilot to our port of call.

Tribune News Service

Biden nominates Metro Detroit attorney to chair International Joint Commission

President Joe Biden nominated Southfield attorney Gerald Acker to be commissioner and chair of the International Joint Commission, a binational group that regulates use of the Great Lakes and other waters shared by the U.S. and Canada.

Tribune News Service

Federal money to replace lead pipes is just a first step to cleaner drinking water in Chicago

An all-hands-on-deck approach is critical to ensuring all Chicagoans, and everyone across the Great Lakes region, has access to clean, safe, affordable drinking water.

Chicago Sun-Times

Researchers thought they knew how PFAS get into the Great Lakes. Then they made a discovery

DETROIT — PFAS pollutants ride rivers across the Midwest and Canada to get to the Great Lakes. But not in the way a pair of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers studying the forever chemicals expected, and that could impact how environmental officials regulate the chemicals.

Tribune News Service

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Some Chicago birds are nesting nearly a month earlier than they did more than a century ago, study shows

CHICAGO -- Some Chicago birds are nesting nearly a month earlier than they did more than a century ago. And like some other shifts happening around the Great Lakes region as temperatures rise and the timing of the natural world drifts, there’s a familiar driver: climate change.

Chicago Tribune

With the arrival of spring temps, ice coverage on Lake Michigan is likely to end up just below average this season

CHICAGO — As ice coverage across the Great Lakes falls from winter highs with spring and summer warming ahead, Lake Michigan is likely to end up with a just-below-average season.

Chicago Tribune

Biden plans to clean up the Great Lakes

"These sites were dangerously polluted for decades," Biden acknowledged. "We're committed to clean them up."

Salon

Winter research in Great Lakes will help scientists understand climate change and what happens when ice disappears

CHICAGO — A group of scientists walked out on to frozen Lake Michigan to do something they’ve done time and again throughout the Great Lakes: collect water.

Chicago Tribune

Scientists take rare look under Great Lakes' frozen surfaces

Scientists have fanned out across the Great Lakes' frozen surfaces to learn what happens underwater during winter

The Independent UK

Even in water-rich Michigan, no guarantee of enough for all

Dale Buist knew running a commercial greenhouse would pose challenges. He just never expected a water shortage to be among them. Not in Michigan, with its vast aquatic riches.

Chicago Tribune

Even in water-rich Michigan, no guarantee of enough for all

Michigan would seem the last place to worry about water shortages

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Parachute, Oriole lead the Chicago pack for 2022 James Beard Award semifinalist nominations

In the category of best chef Great Lakes region, Chicago once again dominated the list of semifinalists, this year with nine nominations.

Tribune News Service

Great Lakes scientists dive into winter research

DULUTH, Minn. — Scientists from across the Great Lakes region know a lot about the water in summer, when they can go out in boats and conduct research under a warm sun.

Chicago Tribune

Lake Michigan ice coverage may be nearing its peak as lake levels continue to drop

CHICAGO — Ice coverage may be nearing its peak throughout the Great Lakes in a season that has trended closer to average than originally forecast, as Lake Michigan’s water levels are expected to continue their decline well below the string of monthly record highs reached a few years ago.

Chicago Tribune

Toxic dumping grounds that still feed into Lake Michigan among the sites to benefit from ‘game-changing’ funding boost

Pollution hot spots including toxic dumping grounds that still feed into Lake Michigan are among the sites that stand to benefit from a $1 billion boost in funding for cleaning up the Great Lakes.

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Trump and two eldest children must testify in New York fraud investigation, judge rules – as it happened

Former president loses bid to avoid being questioned under oath about his family’s business activities – follow the day’s politics news

The Independent UK

Biden: Infrastructure plan gives $1B for Great Lakes cleanup

President Joe Biden's administration says the bipartisan infrastructure law will pump $1 billion into a Great Lakes restoration program

Salon

Climate change hits the Great Lakes

Average maximum ice cover on the lakes has fallen 22 percent over the last 50 years

Tribune News Service

Most Great Lakes won't approach record highs in next 6 months, report finds

DETROIT — Most of the Great Lakes will remain above their long-term average water levels in the coming months but won't reach the record highs of recent years, Army Corps of Engineers hydrologists said in their latest forecast.

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Most Great Lakes won't approach record highs in next six months, report finds

Most of the Great Lakes will remain above their long-term average water levels in the coming months but won't reach the record highs of recent years, Army Corps of Engineers hydrologists said in their latest forecast.

ABC News

Great Lakes students discover tropical starfish hundreds of kilometres from its usual range

A group of NSW high school marine science students were out snorkelling when they spotted something unusual. It turned out to be a tropical starfish species, hundreds of kilometres south of its usual range.

The Independent UK

Scientists race to gather winter data on warming Great Lakes

Winter is changing across the Great Lakes region, and scientists want to know what that will mean

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