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Illinois wants to protect the Great Lakes from invasive carp. A toxic mess stands in the way.
By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, WBEZ
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Stateside Podcast: The fight to keep or kill Roundup
Roundup is widely used on U.S. farms, despite lawsuits, health warnings, and billions in payouts over cancer claims. Circle of Blue Senior Editor and Chief Correspondent Keith Schneider weighs in on the science, politics, and future of glyphosate in Michigan’s agriculture under the Trump administration.
Michigan’s fight against Lake Erie pollution didn’t work. What happens next?
Since the 1990s, cyanobacterial blooms have become increasingly common each summer in western Lake Erie. The blooms are cause by an overabundance of nutrients, namely phosphorus, that spills into the lake off farms.
Hundreds of fish killed by manure runoff in Monroe County
By Danielle Kaeding, Wisconsin Public Radio
This article was republished here with permission from Wisconsin Public Radio.
Manure runoff from a dairy farm in Monroe County killed hundreds of fish in nearby waterways, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
The agency first received notice of the spill Saturday from a call to its violation hotline.
Floating Offshore Wind Turbines Are Getting A Vertical Axis Makeover — Here’s Why
The Swedish startup SeaTwirl is on track to scale up its vertical axis floating offshore wind turbine for a demonstration funded by the EU agency Horizon Europe.
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