New research suggests that algal blooms in Lake Erie may be contaminating the environment with an estrogen-like compound that disrupts reproductive hormone activity in fish. A four-year study conducted by[…]
While surveying the Grand Calumet River in 1988, Thomas Simon found a deformed fish he later named Blinky. The fish was named as such for a striking abnormality: he was[…]
On board the ship Neah Bay, Coast Guard Lt. Commander William Woityra, Mike McKay and a group that includes undergraduate students and researchers, have been breaking Lake Erie’s icy surface[…]
A five-year U.S. Geological Survey pilot study of water availability and use in the Great Lakes Basin recently concluded. According to the agency, the pilot project was part of a[…]
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