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网页The Great Lakes Now monthly television program is produced by Detroit PBS in partnership with a network of PBS affiliates around the region. Shooting on location in eight states and Canada, the magazine-style show brings viewers stories about the recreational, economic, scientific, political and environmental issues related to the Great Lakes and drinking water.
30 Years Later: Mussel invasion legacy reaches far beyond Great …
网页2021年2月2日 · 30 years of change for the Great Lakes. After quagga mussels replaced zebra mussels, their populations peaked in about 2003 and declined slightly in shallow waters. They continue to increase slowly in deeper portions of the lakes, said Alexander Karatayev, director of the Great Lakes Center at Buffalo State College.
Great Lakes water levels could increase on average from 19 to 44 ...
网页2022年6月27日 · “The storms that caused huge amounts of infrastructure damage in Duluth back in 2017-2018 were not, by historical standards, particularly huge storms; what made them so damaging was that they occurred when lake levels were at a high stand,” said Jay Austin, professor with the University of Minnesota Duluth.
Erie Situation - Great Lakes Now
网页Produced by David J. Ruck and Plastic Oceans, the film has aired at film festivals around the region this year. Ruck, who lives in Muskegon, Mich., is a regular contributor to Great Lakes Now. In partnership, PBS stations in six cities and three states that border Lake Erie — and one along Lake Superior — are simultaneously broadcasting the ...
The 2022 Great Lakes shipping season sets sail after COVID-19 …
网页2022年3月10日 · The Build Back Better Act, currently stalled, has a provision granting $350 million in funding for a new Great Lakes icebreaker for the U.S. Coast Guard. In late February, the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2022 was introduced to the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which also includes $350 million for a new …
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网页Major federal funding aims to speed transition to clean energy in the rural Midwest. PFAS Roundup: Four Great Lakes states selected to test residents annually for environmental chemical exposure. Michigan’s ambitious clean energy laws face a peninsula-sized hurdle. Palisades nuclear relaunch gets more subsidies in Michigan — and more backlash.
First in decades, a new Great Lakes freighter joins fleet
网页September 6, 2022. For the first time in decades, a new bulk freighter has been built on and launched on the Great Lakes. The Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding Company in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin unveiled the Mark W. Barker earlier this year after spending nearly three years constructing it. The vessel was commissioned by Cleveland-based Interlake ...
The Suckers: Great Lakes' “best supporting fishes” are important to …
网页2021年7月22日 · Suckers, though, are important to the entire food web of the system, according to Karen Murchie, director of freshwater research at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. “What they do is a lot of important stuff,” she said. “They also move nutrients around as they move from habitat to habitat.”. Suckers are also food themselves for …
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网页Palisades nuclear relaunch gets more subsidies in Michigan — and more backlash. September 10, 2024 - by Bridge Michigan. The federal government will provide more than $600 million to help two rural electricity cooperatives buy money from the nuclear plant. While proponents celebrate, anti-nuclear activists say the money could be better spent ...
About Great Lakes Now
网页With a monthly magazine-style television program and daily online reports at GreatLakesNow.org, the Great Lakes Now initiative offers in-depth coverage of news, issues, events and developments affecting the lakes and the communities that depend on them, while capturing the character and culture of the region. Find our Watch Parties and …
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