Aug 16
Millions of volunteers have been cleaning up American rivers for the last quarter of a century—listen up: Rivers and streams provide drinking water and wildlife habitat, yet millions of tons of trash end up in our waterways each year. So, in the early ’90s, the American Rivers launched a National River Cleanup Week in order …
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Aug 15
—Brooke Kansier, Great Lakes Echo* It might not be as addictive as Candy Crush, but a new EPA app could have big implications for water management and the people who drink, swim or fish within the Great Lakes. The yet-unnamed app will detect blooms of cyanobacteria—a photosynthetic microbe often mistaken for algae and responsible for …
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Apr 30
—Kayla Smith, Great Lakes Echo* A new poll shows that people are split on whether the environmental health of the Great Lakes is getting better or worse. About 18 percent of the those polled by the International Joint Commission say the lakes are improving. Another 26 percent say they are getting worse and 30 percent …
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Apr 16
—Morgan Linn, Great Lakes Echo* Levels of hazardous flame retardants in most Great Lakes fish are declining—or at least researchers thought they were. But a new study shows that this isn’t the case for Lake Erie smallmouth bass, an important game fish. And the contaminated fish threatens the health of some of those who eat them. …
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Apr 02
—Tong Xu, Great Lakes Echo* Washing your hands with antibacterial hand soaps probably protects you from bacterial infections. But when that soap gets washed down the drain to the waters of the Great Lakes, the harm may outweigh its benefit. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that many consumer products, including antibacterial soaps, contain triclosan. …
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