Tag: harmful algal blooms
Ohio House seeks to cut clean water program
The Ohio House recently approved a state budget bill that would heavily cut H2Ohio, the clean water program that aims to scale back harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie. The […]
Great Lakes research at risk as Trump administration proposes major cuts to NOAA
One of many institutes at risk is the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research based at the University of Michigan. It’s partly funded by NOAA to research invasive species, extreme weather, and toxic cyanobacterial blooms.
The U.S. and Canada have long managed the Great Lakes together. That era could be ending.
Some policy experts worry political tensions are threatening the future of the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth.
One world, two Great Lakes
A tropical lake in Central Africa might not seem like the first place you would look to gain insights into North America’s Great Lakes. But that’s just what researchers from Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in Ohio have been doing for the past three years.
Lake Victoria is the largest of Africa’s Great Lakes, the second largest in the world after Lake Superior.