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As data centers proliferate across Illinois, communities grapple with how to supply the necessary water
By Susan Cosier, Inside Climate News
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Illinois is already a top destination for data centers, and more are coming.
How America’s prairie was nearly destroyed — and why it should be restored
By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
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The American prairie was so vast, so alien, it shattered comprehension.
Newcomers to the seemingly endless grasslands that once spanned approximately a quarter of North America often hit a psychic wall, descending into fits of mania.
Petition seeks state listing of wolves as bills seek to remove federal protections
By Danielle Kaeding, Wisconsin Public Radio
This article was republished here with permission from Wisconsin Public Radio.
Conservation advocates are petitioning the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to list the gray wolf as a state-threatened or endangered species as Republicans in Congress seek to remove federal protections for the animal.
I Speak for the Fish: The hardest lake sturgeon dive in the Great Lakes
For two weeks each year, the St. Clair River hosts thousands of spawning lake sturgeon.
Hundreds of six-foot females plump with eggs and thousands of 4 to 5-foot-long males gather at the base of Lake Huron. In the span of a few weeks, they will arrive, group up, deposit millions of fertilized eggs on the river bottom and depart.
New book digs into Indigenous cuisine through archaeology, culture and ecology
This article was republished here with permission from Great Lakes Echo.
By Isabella Figueroa, Great Lakes Echo
In a new book, archeologists who study past societies of the Great Lakes and Midwest agree “you are what you eat,” but they say there’s a lot more to it than that.