Great Lakes

Water-Filter Pitchers Not Equally Effective at Removing Microcystins

Photo: Dr. Chaffin in the lab. (Credit: Ohio Sea Grant, Stone Laboratory, https://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/news/2018/7a1my/water-quality-safe.) Harmful algal blooms (HABs) and the toxins…

6 years ago

Interview: Ohio’s Representative Nickie Antonio

MCAF:What is unique about protecting the resources in your district? My district is unique in that it includes an urban…

6 years ago

Trump Just Remade Ocean Policy—Here’s What That Means

The spill began with a bang. On August 20, 2010 a jet of natural gas surged to the Deepwater Horizon…

6 years ago

The great siphoning: Drought-stricken areas eye the Great Lakes

Illustration by Rob Dobi for the Star Tribune Outside Two Harbors, Minn., on a cliff overlooking the broad expanse of…

6 years ago

Plan to protect Lake Erie from algae blooms isn’t working, study shows

Farm runoff provides fertilizer that turbo-charges algae growth in the western Lake Erie basin. Wochit (Photo: Brenda Culler, Ohio Department…

7 years ago