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6 lakes larger than Rhode Island in the US: Lake Huron and Lake Michigan are nearly 15 times larger

Rhode Island may be the smallest state in the United States by area, but comparing it with some of North America’s largest lakes makes it seem even tinier. The state covers just 1,214 square miles, which is surprisingly small once you realise that six freshwater lakes in or partly connected…

The Times of India

Millions of farmers in Africa’s Great Lakes region face rising temperatures. Study predicts how crop disease and pests could spread

Farming in the Great Lakes region of Africa (which includes Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Kenya) is challenging because of changing environments and ongoing social and political tensions. These tensions include conflict over resources. As a result, agricultural productivity is low and there’s a high…

The Conversation

Demand for hydropower surges as Trump clamps down on clean energy

Home to one of the world’s largest deposits of freshwater, the Great Lakes region will soon host next-generation generators – just as prices are being hiked across the US

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PFAS are turning up in the Great Lakes, putting fish and water supplies at risk – here’s how they get there

No matter where you live in the United States, you have likely seen headlines about PFAS being detected in everything from drinking water to fish to milk to human bodies.

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‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever

The molluscs are decimating food chains in Switzerland, have devastated the Great Lakes in North America, and this week were spotted in Northern Ireland for the first time

The Guardian - UK

Water levels across the Great Lakes are falling – just as US data centers move in

Region struggling with drought now threatened by energy-hungry facilities – but some residents are fighting back

The Guardian - US

Lake effect snow piles up in Great Lakes region, impacting Thanksgiving travel

Strong lake effect snow bands are expected to dump several inches of snow across the Great Lakes region Thanksgiving Day, with the most accumulation hitting the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

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Great Lakes region preparing for bad weather as lake-effect snowfall ingredients begin mixing

Cold air is sweeping across the Great Lakes region, bringing lake-effect snow from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Western New York

The Independent UK

Floridians warned about falling iguanas as wintry weather hits eastern US

Cold and snow take hold in eastern two-thirds of the US, from the Great Lakes to Florida and Texas

The Guardian - US

Meteorologists warn of 'intense' snow in Great Lakes states and record lows in South

Large stretches of the U.S. await one of the season’s first blasts of wintry weather as temperatures dropped in the Northern Plains and snowstorms developed across the Great Lakes

The Independent UK

Without the song, 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' may have been largely forgotten

Without Gordon Lightfoot’s song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 other ships that went down in the Great Lakes before it

The Independent UK

'The legend lives on': Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald still resonates 50 years later

November 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of all the estimated 6,500 ships that have gone down in the Great Lakes

The Independent UK

NGOs urge humanitarian push at Great Lakes conference in Paris

France and Togo are co-hosting a conference in Paris on Thursday to support peace and prosperity in the Great Lakes region of Africa. A coalition of international NGOs will urge participants to step up their financial response to the "unprecedented humanitarian crisis" in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring…

Radio France Internationale

Warmer weather is leading to vanishing winters in North America’s Great Lakes

Fifty years ago, winter didn’t just visit the Great Lakes — it took up residence. If you blinked too slowly, your eyelashes froze together. Standing on the ice at the edge of Lake Superior, just after an early January snowstorm, everything was white and still, except for the lake. The…

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A Great Lakes oil pipeline faces 3 controversies with no speedy resolutions

For more than a decade, controversy over an oil pipeline that passes directly through a Native American reservation and then across a sensitive waterway that is also a key shipping lane has brewed in Wisconsin and Michigan.

Reason

CBP Is Deporting Cruise Ship Crew Over Child Pornography Allegations Without Evidence

Advocacy groups say more than 100 cruise ship crew members have been deported in recent months, and they're not being shown the evidence against them or given any due process.

The Conversation

Great Lakes offshore wind could power the region and beyond

Offshore wind power could provide far more electricity than the U.S. uses for residential, commercial and industrial purposes. But the federal government has recently stopped approving offshore projects in the ocean.

The Conversation

The Great Lakes are powerful. Learning about ‘rip currents’ can help prevent drowning

Between 2010 and 2017, there were approximately 50 drowning fatalities each year associated with rough surf and strong currents in the Great Lakes.

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Invasive carp threaten the Great Lakes − and reveal a surprising twist in national politics

In his second term, President Donald Trump has not taken many actions that draw near-universal praise from across the political spectrum. But there is at least one of these political anomalies, and it illustrates the broad appeal of environmental protection and conservation projects – particularly when it concerns an ecosystem…

The Independent UK

Trump administration promises Illinois it will pay to keep carp out of the Great Lakes

Illinois is getting set to close on property that officials want to buy to keep invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes

The Guardian - US

‘Cataclysmic’: environmentalists fear effects of Trump cuts on Great Lakes

Advocates warn firings and funding freezes already risk poisoning drinking water and decimating fish population

The Independent UK

Explorers discover wreckage of cargo ship that sank in Lake Superior storm more than 130 years ago

Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of one of the first steel cargo ships to travel the Great Lakes

The Conversation

Coastal economies rely on NOAA, from Maine to Florida, Texas and Alaska – even if they don’t realize it

Healthy coastal ecosystems play crucial roles in the U.S. economy, from supporting multibillion-dollar fisheries and tourism industries to protecting coastlines from storms.

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Fancy a dip in the Great Lakes? You might think twice after scientists revealed 'highest reported worldwide levels' of microplastics found in some Great Lakes fish.

Scientists are urging the US and Canadian governments to step up testing for microplastics in the iconic lakes

LiveScience

Scientists find hidden 'hotspot' that helped create the Great Lakes before North America even existed

A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed where they did.

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