Tag: Environment
Dams may slow harmful algal blooms in urban lakes, expert says | Great Lakes Echo
Like clockwork, Michigan’s Ford Lake and its downstream neighbor, Belleville Lake, turn bright green every summer due to harmful algal blooms.
The lakes, located near Ypsilanti in the southeast part of the state, have struggled for decades with phosphorus pollution that spurs algae growth.
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Nature has clues to solve environmental problems | Great Lakes Echo
Human engineering solves age-old problems each day.
But the natural environment has been engineering solutions to solve problems for thousands of years. People are catching on.
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Letters to the Editor: September 1, 2023
Don’t forget about home care nurses
Shoppers latest to ditch the plastic bag
Shoppers Drug Mart will stop offering plastic bags at its stores starting Tuesday.
Canada phasing out six types of single-use plastics
On December 20, the federal government will ban the manufacture and import of single-use items including checkout bags, cutlery, stir sticks, straws, and more.
Outdoors is the classroom for unique high school environmental course
While most London-area schoolkids were hitting the books the first week of classes, a group of nature-loving high schoolers were on a lake preparing for a series of upcoming learning adventures.
Green-thinking Ivey students irked as school honours bank boss
Some students at Ivey Business School are chafing after learning Royal Bank of Canada’s top boss will receive the school’s prestigious business leader award Thursday, a day after a scathing review of the bank’s emission targets by a group of Indigenous and environmental groups was released.
Feds plan to establish registry to track recyclable plastics
The public, stakeholders, and partners have until October 7 to comment on the new rules and registry, and the government hopes to publish draft regulations by the middle of next year.
Health professionals call for ban on fossil fuel advertising (Poll)
The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment has released an open letter calling on the federal government to ban advertising promoting fossil fuels.
Letters to the Editor: April 27, 2022
Get rid of the Bud