Tag: Algae Blooms
All water is local
“Nibi Chronicles,” a monthly Great Lakes Now feature, is written by Staci Lola Drouillard. A Grand Portage Ojibwe direct descendant, she lives in Grand Marais on Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior. Her nonfiction books “Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe” and “Seven Aunts” were published 2019 and 2022, and the children’s story “A Family Tree” in 2024.
The golden oyster mushroom craze unleashed an invasive species – and a worrying new study shows it’s harming native fungi
By Aishwarya Veerabahu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Golden oyster mushrooms, with their sunny yellow caps and nutty flavor, have become wildly popular for being healthy, delicious and easy to grow at home from mushroom kits.
Lake Erie feels like a ‘bathtub’ right now. Here’s why that’s fueling fears for harmful algae blooms in Ontario
Rising water temperatures are creating unusual “bathtub conditions” in western Lake Erie this summer, raising concerns for harmful algal blooms. Read the full story by Inside Halton.
Advocacy group challenges “new normal” status of Lake Erie’s algal blooms
It’s the annual peak algal bloom season and the spotlight as usual, is on Lake Erie’s western basin, including Toledo and southeast Michigan.
For the public, that’s because in 2014, Toledo went three days without drinking water as toxic algal blooms forced the city to issue a “do not drink” order.
Iconic whitefish on edge of collapse as Great Lakes biodiversity crisis deepens
A cultural icon for Native Americans and a popular fish across the Great Lakes region is becoming harder to find as its population declines due to invasive mussels, which filter out the bottom of the food web.