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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.
Zebra Mussels: A guide to the good and the bad of these Great …
2020年2月28日 · A native mussel can take 3 to 5 years to mature, and they take a while to reproduce because they are parasitic. Zebra mussels mature in a year and release their larvae into the water to develop. The result is a storm of zebra mussels rapidly reproducing and spreading throughout the Great Lakes wherever the water takes them.
First in decades, a new Great Lakes freighter joins fleet
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 ...
30 Years Later: Mussel invasion legacy reaches far beyond Great …
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 Education – Lessons Plans for Middle Schoolers
Great Lakes Now wants to help your students explore the Great Lakes.. That’s why we’ve designed a collection of free lesson plans that engage students with the science, math and more about the Great Lakes, largely through video segments from our award-winning PBS television program.Designed for middle-school classrooms and at-home learning, these educational activities will help students ...
Great Lakes water levels could increase on average from 19 to 44 ...
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.
The murky process of reopening Palisades and why it’s a turning …
2024年5月1日 · The recommissioning process for Palisades should be relatively straightforward, Todd Allen, a professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences at the University of Michigan, told Great Lakes Now. “You have to prove to the regulator that the material condition of the plant is okay to restart — that while it was shut down, there was ...
Across the U.S., millions of people are drinking unsafe water. How …
2020年9月15日 · By Lynne Peeples, Ensia, through the Institute for Nonprofit News network This story is the first in a nine-month investigation of drinking water contamination across the U.S. The series is supported by funding from the Park Foundation and Water Foundation. Once a week, Florencia Ramos makes a special trip to the R–N Market in Lindsay, California. “If …
From the Ice Age to Now: A Lake Erie timeline
2024年3月22日 · 2,000 B.C. Lake Erie, as we know it today, is formed. “It really started as the glacial ice was retreating about 18,000 years ago,” said Andy Nash, an Ohio Department of Natural Resources geologist. “There was a series of older pro-glacial lakes during the Ice Age. The Great Black Swamp was actually the lakebed for some of these lakes.”.
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Public hearing draws on big questions about Upper Peninsula copper mining. November 5, 2024 - by Interlochen Public Radio. In Gogebic County, on the western end of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, towering old-growth evergreens carpet the landscape as it rolls down toward the deep blue of Lake Superior.