Tag: Everglades
What’s Contaminating Our Once-Pristine Water Sources?
Clean water is vital to our health, communities, and economy. Streams and wetlands provide many benefits by trapping floodwaters, recharging groundwater supplies, filtering pollution, and providing habitat for fish and wildlife. People depend on clean water sources for their health: about 117 million US residents — one in three people … [continued]
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A Great Lakes oil pipeline faces 3 controversies with no speedy resolutions
By Mike Shriberg, University of Michigan
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For more than a decade, controversy over an oil pipeline that passes directly through a Native American reservation and then across a sensitive waterway that is also a key shipping lane has brewed in Wisconsin and Michigan.
As mussels ravage Great Lakes whitefish, Lake Superior survives — for now
By Kelly House, Bridge Michigan
The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit PBS; Michigan Public, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; and The Narwhal who work together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water.
Will Adding Sugar Cane To US Coca-Cola Further Degrade The Florida Everglades?
Last month US President Donald Trump pushed for Coca-Cola to switch its US sweetening ingredient from corn syrup to cane sugar. It’s part of a long-term, successful lobbying effort — the sugar industry is renowned for its ample political donations and easy access to the White House. Is it a … [continued]
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