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网页2011年9月30日 · The Great Lakes Now monthly television program is produced by Detroit PBS in partnership with a network of PBS affiliates around the region. Shooting on location in eight states and Canada, the magazine-style show brings viewers stories about the recreational, economic, scientific, political and environmental issues related to the Great Lakes and drinking water.
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网页March 26, 2021 - by GLN Editor. Invasive mussels are hastening the deterioration of historic Great Lakes shipwrecks, like the submerged Prins Willem V off Milwaukee. Zebra and quagga mussels are also a big problem for water treatment and power plants. But science — and another invader, the round goby—could help fight them.
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网页SEGMENT 3 | Whitefish Point, MI. The Great Lakes are home to an estimated 6,000 to 10,000 shipwrecks, many still waiting to be discovered. But with over 94,000 square miles of combined surface area and depths reaching more than 1,300 feet, locating these lost ships is …
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网页September 25, 2024 - by Gary Wilson, Great Lakes Now. As groundwater resources are increasingly under threat in the U.S. — including the Great Lakes region — regulation, oversight and planning for the long-term are diffused and often lacking.
Great Lakes water levels could increase on average from 19 to 44 ...
网页2022年6月27日 · “The storms that caused huge amounts of infrastructure damage in Duluth back in 2017-2018 were not, by historical standards, particularly huge storms; what made them so damaging was that they occurred when lake levels were at a high stand,” said Jay Austin, professor with the University of Minnesota Duluth.
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网页Latest News | Great Lakes Now. Beneath the Surface: The Line 5 Pipeline in the Great Lakes. Collection 3 – Virtual Field Trips in the Great Lakes. Collection 4 – Lesson Plans from Our Monthly PBS Program. Midwest States Struggle to Fund Dam Safety Projects, Even as Federal Aid Hits Historic Highs. Energy News Roundup: Kwik Trip goes ...
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网页2024年1月8日 · By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, WBEZ. This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WBEZ and Grist, a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Sign up for WBEZ newsletters to get local news you can trust.
Mapping the Great Lakes: Snowfall in the snowbelt
网页2023年1月23日 · Lake effect snow across the Great Lakes occurs as a result of cold air rushing over relatively warm lake waters without ice yet. Once the lakes freeze over, which is becoming less common, the lake effect snow ends since the moisture can’t be drawn into the air. The west side of Michigan experiences the snowbelt effect the most all along the ...
As Michigan winters vanish, researchers study snow for clues …
网页2024年2月9日 · The efforts come amid a broader push to ramp up winter research in recent years.Researchers across the Great Lakes, for instance, launched an initiative in 2022 to start collecting more winter data. And the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to increase monitoring of water temperatures in the depths of the Great Lakes, in recognition that even that constantly-frigid water is ...
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网页2024年10月7日 · Lake Michigan’s surface temperature has been above average nearly every day this year so far. All five Great Lakes are heating up. The rice harvest — manoominike — has officially started across Ojibwe country. Columnist Staci Lola Drouillard talks with her cousin about harvesting and processing wild rice, as …