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- — November 24, 2010
NASA: The world’s lakes are getting warmer

NASA has conducted a comprehensive survey of temperatures in the Earth’s major lakes, and the results show a trend of rising water temperatures over the past 25 years, likely due[…]

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- — November 23, 2010
NOAA awards $9.2 million to Great Lakes fish habitat restoration projects

Nine projects aimed at fish habitat restoration in the Great Lakes region will receive a total of $9.2 million in funding from NOAA, the organization announced last week. The projects[…]

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- — November 9, 2010
Form of algae harmless in Lake Superior, but elsewhere it’s snot

Researchers in Duluth, Minn. are trying to understand how a form of algae is seemingly harmless in Lake Superior, while it is damaging and disdainfully called “rock snot” elsewhere. Didymosphenia[…]

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- — November 8, 2010
Laser imaging could be fast, affordable alternative for beach E. coli monitoring

An experimental laser imaging-based system might provide health officials a new way to track E. coli at beaches. The imaging system was originally developed at Purdue University to track contaminants[…]

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