Great Lakes
The Great Lakes are a system of five large freshwater lakes in central North America—Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, and Lake Superior—that drain into the...
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Great Lakes
The advance and retreat of glaciers over millions of years scraped and scoured the Great Lakes basins until they attained their present form about 10,000 years ago. Forming the largest s...
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A massive cleanup plan to restore the Great Lakes for future generations needs to be a priority in Congress this year, lawmakers and environmental activists said Wednesday. Members of Congress repr...
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A fast-spreading aquatic virus that threatens the Great Lakes fishing industry has been detected in Lake Huron for the first time, Michigan officials said Thursday.The Department of Natural Resourc...
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Proposed rules meant to keep foreign species out of the Great Lakes would require oceangoing ships to flush their ballast tanks with salt water before entering the St. Lawrence Seaway.The rules als...
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A massive freighter towers over the Grande Mariner as the 183-foot-long cruise boat slips past the Motor City skyline en route to Mackinac Island.
By the time the Grand...
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The governors of the eight Great Lakes states worked for four years to write a plan that would protect their abundant water from being piped south to regions where booming populations face dwindlin...
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Shrinking dunes. Crumbling lighthouses. Decimated populations of native trout and clams. These are among a long list of threats to national parks and lakeshores in the Great Lakes region, a nonprof...
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A foot of snow blanketed parts of Michigan and Wisconsin during the night, closing schools Tuesday and causing numerous traffic accidents.At least three traffic deaths were blamed on the weather in...
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When Canada and the United States approved the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement in 1972, the running joke in Cleveland was that anyone unlucky enough to fall into the Cuyahoga River would decay ...
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A deadly, fast-spreading aquatic virus is reaching epidemic proportions in New York's two Great Lakes and has already spread into the Finger Lakes region in upstate New York, a Cornell University f...
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Dec 5 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
arrived in Ethiopia on Wednesday for talks with African leaders
aimed at tackling the long-running conflict in the volatile
Great Lakes r...
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Great Lakes
Great Lakes
Lawmakers tout Great Lakes cleanup plan
