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Climate Migration, the Fall Situation, Bay City Restoration For Friday, Oct. 24, 2025 1 – Climate migration is when people move to escape the effects of climate change. Too many hot days in the summer, or too many wildfires, for instance.  Michig…

Climate Migration, the Fall Situation, Bay City Restoration

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#mrgreatlakes #climatemigration #upperpeninsula #fallcolors #autumn #glri

Summer is over but those #GreatLakes #Stormwater webinars are now available from @glcommission.bsky.social : www.glc.org/work/glsc

Fall Color Forecast, Climate Change ‘Grue Jay,’ E. Coli Mapper For Friday, Oct. 3, 2025 1 – Fall colors are showing up across Michigan.  According to the folks at Pure Michigan, the colors are expected to peak in the next two weeks (through Oct. 10,…

“The two parent species are separated by 7 million years of evolution. Their ranges didn’t overlap as recently as the 1950s. They used to be strangers.” #GrueJay

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Reported

Time running out for Great Lakes whitefish. Can ponds become their Noah’s Ark? - Bridge Michigan On the brink of collapse in Lakes Michigan and Huron, whitefish need a miracle. Now, some want to relocate fish en masse to inland waters to preserve dying bloodlines.

Noah's Ark: "Though whitefish remain stable in Saginaw Bay, lower Green Bay, and Lake Superior, scientists fear the mussels could eventually harm those fish, too." bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

Trump officials to announce plan to boost coal output The United States is set to announce on Monday policies to try to boost the output of coal, the Interior Department said, as the Trump administration seeks to reverse the decline of the fuel's use.

Ashes to ashes: USDOE to provide $625M to expand power generation fueled by #coal US Energy Sec expects most of nation's coal-fired power plants to delay retirement to help deliver electricity needed to fuel #AI (I wrote this message without robots) www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

That big omnibus is awesome. #HardBoiled

How to Make Ernest Hemingway's Favorite Hamburger if there is one man who deserves an immense amount of trust, it is Hemingway himself. So I set about to re-create his recipe, exactly as it was written.

This free read-it-later app is the perfect replacement for Pocket. Pocket is Raindrop. Recipes are for Raindrop. www.artofmanliness.com/living/food-...

Coastal Cleanup, Massive Carp, Wildfire Alerts For Friday, Aug. 22, 2025 1 – At least 30 beach cleanups are planned in Michigan next month.  According to organizers from the Alliance for the Great Lakes, volunteers from across the region …

Am I being too hard on Canada this week? mrgreatlakes.com/2025/08/22/c...

Capture the Dark 2025: Winning photographs They say a photograph is worth a thousand words. With over 2,400 entries, from over 22 countries, together we’ve created a powerful story of the night…

Preserve Dark Skies. I love the scorpion #SayNoToLightPollution
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There’s three bs in the question.

Summer Survey, Septic Replacement, Baby Sturgeon For Friday, Aug. 8, 2025 1 – This month, the Lake Guardian began its annual summer water quality survey of the Great Lakes.  Lake Guardian annual survey sampling locations on the Great Lakes.…

This August, summer survey. Ongoing, septic replacement loan program. Aug. 22, baby sturgeon release. mrgreatlakes.com/2025/08/08/s...

Great Lakes Microplastics Summit The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy is proud to present the Great Lakes Microplastic Summit, a dynamic one-day, virtual event u...

Where Do Microplastics Go?
How Do We Detect Them?
What Are the Risks?
How Do They Interact?
A #GreatLakes #Microplastics Summit is Oct. 22
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Expanding the Use of Oil Detection Canines to Detect Oils Submerged Under Freshwater #IISD #HazMaTON
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Researchers studying why Michigan’s moose population isn’t growing | Great Lakes Echo By Rachel Lewis After the great “moose lifts” in the 1980s, researchers were confident Michigan’s moose population would continue to grow, with a projection that the population could reach numbers in ...

Winter ticks are not regular ticks. They stay attached to their host their entire lives. A study by #Cornell University found that some #moose have had over 100,000 ticks at a time. greatlakesecho.org/2025/07/30/r...

Study shows correlation between 'forever chemicals' and Type 2 diabetes | Great Lakes Now More PFAS news as more than 400,000 residents in Illinois grapple with elevated “forever chemicals” in their drinking water, and two investigations reveal the status of PFAS in Canada.

Results showed that every additional exposure to #PFAS correlated with a 31% increase in risk for developing Type 2 #diabetes. www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/07/stud...

The Ocean Cleanup and AWS Join Forces to Accelerate Ocean Plastic Removal using AI   | Press Release | The Ocean Cleanup The Ocean Cleanup announces collaboration with Amazon Web Services.

#AWS AI will accelerate & scale #TheOceanCleanup effort - enabling precise tracking of plastic accumulation & predictive modeling of debris movement - enhancing ability to detect, track, & remove ocean plastic while protecting marine life. theoceancleanup.com/press/press-...

Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees unseen for 80 years Gray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park in 1995 to help control the numbers of elk that were eating young trees, and it is finally paying off for quaking aspen.

At their peak pop, an estimated 18,000 elk ranged across the park, chomping on grasses & shrubs as well as the leaves, twigs & bark of trees like quaking aspen. This stopped saplings from establishing themselves, & surveys in the 1990s found 0 aspen saplings

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Dogs at the Beach, Whitefish on the Decline, Warming on the Rise For Friday, July 25, 2025 1 – When you’re at the beach, keep an eye on your dog.  Harmful algal blooms, also called HABs, pose a serious danger to dogs.  Photo by Veronika Andrews on Pex…

Dogs at the Beach,
Whitefish on the Decline,
Warming on the Rise
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The answer is Raindrop.io. You can download your Pocket data and then import it, easily.

The Prototype: The Cool Tech Hiding In Your Dentist’s Office In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a new company building automated construction equipment, a potential new class of virus-fighting compounds and more.

Music. Science. Stayin' Young: In a new study, it turns out that brain scans of older musicians show that they function more similarly to younger people than they do to older non-musicians. www.forbes.com/sites/alexkn...

Sea lamprey Great Lakes shipping

Where do sea lamprey go?

Mercury is still building up in Lake Huron’s food web.

Shipping on the Great Lakes needs more support.

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Snap a Critter, Squish a Lanternfly For Friday, June 27, 2025 1 – Lake Huron is expected to rise by an inch over the next month. That’s according to a water levels update from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Detroit.  …

Snap a Critter, Squish a Lanternfly
#GreatLakes #WaterLevels #InvasiveSpecies
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"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites." — William Ruckelshaus
h/t @ecowatch.bsky.social

#Pocket is shutting down. Bummer. I keep all kinds of stuff here. Lots of #recipes mostly. Ideas for replacements/ways to import? support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fut...

The Edenville Dam damn lie that won't die Dam failure anniversary brings another barrage of misinformation seeded five years ago in the fertile ground of confirmation bias; dredges up Election 2020 memories

The Edenville Dam damn lie that won't die
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Conservation Grants, Stormwater Webinars, Beach Closures For Friday, June 20, 2025 1 – Local conservation and education efforts are getting a boost from the state.  The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has awarded gr…

Conservation Grants, Stormwater Webinar, Beach Closures

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Climate Change Reporting and Mental Health: Practical Tips for Newsrooms and Journalists In a recent Reuters Institute webinar, experts discussed the latest research into the impact of climate reporting on journalists' mental health.

Climate Change Reporting and Mental Health: Practical Tips for Newsrooms and Journalists

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Once in Dire Straits, Atlantic Sturgeon Are Staging a Comeback on the East Coast From Maine to Florida, the endangered, prehistoric fish is rebounding, but a recent study shows just how vulnerable the U.S. population remains

Once in Dire Straits, Atlantic Sturgeon Are Staging a Comeback on the East Coast

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