Category: Great Lakes Now
Putting passion to pages: Minnesota authors release second guide to state wildflowers
This article was republished here with permission from Great Lakes Echo.
By Shealyn Paulis, Great Lakes Echo
Within Minnesota’s wetlands, forests and prairies, thousands of different species of wildflowers bloom annually – some only once and in the evening. In their second book, two Minnesotan women put their passions to paper and set out to uncover all the state flora has to offer.
One world, two Great Lakes
A tropical lake in Central Africa might not seem like the first place you would look to gain insights into North America’s Great Lakes. But that’s just what researchers from Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in Ohio have been doing for the past three years.
Lake Victoria is the largest of Africa’s Great Lakes, the second largest in the world after Lake Superior.
A Chicago church won’t be planting fruit trees this spring as climate funds remain frozen
By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, WBEZ
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How farmer-led research could revolutionize the relationship between agriculture and researchers
The relationship between farmers and researchers has not always been a collaborative one. Douglas Jackson-Smith, professor and Kellogg Endowed Chair of Agroecosystem Management in the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University, wants to change that. For decades, researchers and farmers have largely worked in siloes only coming together when the scientists have research that points to something to preserve soil health like crop cover or crop rotation.
Michigan EV industry on a knife-edge as energy project delays mount across region
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Michigan’s investments in electric vehicle manufacturing are in jeopardy following what the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency called the “most consequential day of deregulation in U.S.