Category: Great Lakes Echo
How El Niño Could Affect Fall Colors in the Great Lakes Region
By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva
This year, El Niño could delay fall color in the Great Lakes region.
Call for more air quality monitors in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
By Naomi Maxwell
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy has only two air quality monitors in the Upper Peninsula, one near Marquette and the other in Seney National Wildlife Refuge. The Michigan Environmental Council and other organizations say that’s too few to protect public health in light of worsening wildfires and wildfire smoke.
Wisconsin successfully restores habitat for piping plovers after 49 years with no sightings
By Anna Wildman
A stretch of Lake Superior beach in northern Wisconsin will remain closed to the public next spring and summer with the hopes of luring back a nesting pair of endangered piping plovers, which were recently spotted there for the first time in nearly a half century.
Century-long data reveals complex trends in ice cover in the Great Lakes
By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva
A new study reported 125 years of historical air temperature and ice data on the Great Lakes for the first time and showed the amount of ice on the lakes has declined rapidly over the past four decades.
Shifting sand is natural to Michigan’s dunes; how to cope is controversial
By Olivia O’Neill
Great Lakes sand dunes, especially those on the Lake Michigan shoreline, are threatened by erosion and fluctuating water levels, but there’s disagreement on alternative approaches to effectively address the problems.