USGS study develops new surface water carbon model
As part of a U.S. Geological Survey-led study, researchers have devised a new carbon model to help assess the nation’s surface water interactions with the carbon cycle. U.S. streams, according[…]
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Great Lakes phosphorus levels on the rise, according to IJC report
Phosphorus levels in the Great Lakes have been increasing at an alarming rate, according to a report released on Wednesday by the International Joint Commission. The study concluded that the[…]
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Unidentified compound feminizes male fish in Lake Erie, according to four-year study
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[…]
Conditions in Grand Calumet River AOC improving, researcher says
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[…]
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