Category: Great Lakes
Wildfires are getting worse. Can an old technique help control them?
Although wildfires are commonly associated with the West, the Great Lakes region has seen its share of destructive blazes. Lee Frelich, director of the University of Minnesota Center for Forest Ecology, warns that we will likely see more wildfires due to heat waves and droughts caused by climate change.
Vern Northrup is a former fireman and is a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Ojibwe.
Lake Ontario Waterfront Festival adds educational exhibit
The H. Lee White Maritime Museum and New York Sea Grant have announced the addition of an educational exhibit featuring the New York Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Program to […]
Duluth councilors consider resolution advocating to keep EPA Lab
The Duluth City Council will be considering a resolution requesting federal officials to keep the U.S. EPA’s Great Lakes Toxicology and Ecology Division lab in Duluth, Minnesota, open. About 150 […]
Power outage causes 8-hour sewage overflow at Webster plant
For 8 hours overnight, there was a constant overflow and discharge of wastewater at Walter W. Bradley Wastewater Treatment Plant in Webster, New York, because of a power outage that […]
Authorities say surge of dead fish along Lake Ontario due to weather, temperature changes
As hundreds of thousands of alewife from Lake Ontario have been spawning for the season, authorities say recent weather changes have caused a surge in dead fish along the Greater […]