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Paddleboarder with disabilities crosses Lake Michigan, rewards himself with deep dish pizza

Mike Shoreman arrived at North Avenue Beach on Wednesday as part of a quest to paddle across all five Great Lakes to raise money for mental health programs. Willis Tower served as his a beacon.

Chicago Sun-Times

The westward spread of zebra and quagga mussels shows how tiny invaders can cause big problems

The zebra mussel has been a poster child for invasive species ever since it unleashed economic and ecological havoc on the Great Lakes in the late 1980s. Yet despite intensive efforts to control it and its relative, the quagga mussel, these fingernail-sized mollusks are spreading through U.S. rivers, lakes and…

The Conversation

Toxic algae in the Great Lakes

In Toledo, Ohio, monitoring and treating algae-contaminated water from Lake Erie costs $100 per family per year

Salon

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Heat wave keeps its sticky grip on Midwest and South

The swimming season has kicked into high gear early in a large swath of the U.S., as a heat wave pushed temperatures into the 90s and beyond in a stretch spanning from northern Florida to the Great Lakes and covering about a third of the country’s population

The Independent UK

Chicago’s Erick Williams wins best chef Great Lakes region at James Beard Awards

Considered to be the Oscars of the culinary industry, the coveted awards each year honor the nation’s best chefs, restaurants, restaurateurs, mixologists, bakers, cookbook authors, food writers and more.

Chicago Sun-Times

Excessive heat rolls east, bakes much of central, eastern US

More than 100 million Americans are being warned to stay indoors if possible as a heat wave settles over states stretching through parts of the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes and east to the Carolinas

The Independent UK

Viking Cruises plans epic voyage from Duluth to Antarctica and South America

Cruise passengers boarding the Viking Polaris in Duluth, Minnesota, in the autumn of 2023 will embark on an epic 71-day, eight-country, three-continent voyage that includes stops in Canada, New York City and Mexico, a transit of the Panama Canal and a week in Antarctica, before disembarking in Argentina.

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An iconic American endangered species is at the heart of a political war in Wisconsin

The state’s wolf population is determined by political volleying, with each side of the debate seeking easy answers.

Inverse

Record heat sears Texas, central US this weekend

Record high temperatures continue to sear the Southwest through the Mississippi Valley, driving weekend energy demand as people turn to air conditioners to cool down, with the heat forecast to spread to Chicago and the Great Lakes early this week.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Too many new straws in California’s groundwater milkshake

It wasn’t that long ago that increasingly arid California seemed as watery as a wet sponge. At the time the state became part of the U.S., Tulare Lake was the largest body of freshwater west of the Great Lakes, and winter flooding made it even larger. In particularly wet years,…

Los Angeles Times

The wolf fight in Wisconsin

The state’s wolf population is determined by political volleying, with each side of the debate seeking easy answers

Salon

After a decadelong absence, cruise ships will again stop in Duluth

DULUTH, Minn. — The nearly 400-passenger Viking Octantis cruise ship will make a stop in the Duluth Harbor this week (May 30), the first of several international Great Lakes tours that will take advantage of a new customs facility at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center.

Tribune News Service

The UK’s view of Rwanda is deeply ignorant – I once fell prey to it myself

The refugee deal with President Kagame reveals a profound misunderstanding of history, says Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland

The Guardian - UK

Summer 'revenge travel' could raise drowning risk at beaches, but new tech might help

Many North Americans plan to travel this summer to catch up on lost experiences, following two years of COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions. This so-called revenge travel has the potential to raise the number of drownings, as more people choose to enter the water, even when the conditions aren’t ideal.

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Restoring the Great Lakes: After 50 years of US-Canada joint efforts, some success and lots of unfinished business

The Great Lakes cover nearly 95,000 square miles (250,000 square kilometers) and hold over 20% of Earth’s surface fresh water. More than 30 million people in the U.S. and Canada rely on them for drinking water. The lakes support a multibillion-dollar maritime economy, and the lands around them provided many…

Tribune News Service

Vast swath of US is at risk of summer blackouts, regulator warns

A vast swath of North America from the Great Lakes to the West Coast is at risk of blackouts this summer as heat, drought, shuttered power plants and supply chain woes strain the electric grid. Power supplies in much of the U.S. and part of Canada will be stretched, with…

Benzinga

Method Man's TICAL Hits Michigan Shelves Via Partnership With Glorious Cannabis Co.

Method Man’s TICAL, or Taking into Consideration All Lives brand and its exclusive infused pre-roll strain ‘Sweet Island Skunk’ is coming to Michigan starting Tuesday, May 17. TICAL partnered with Glorious Cannabis Co. out of Rochester Hills to launch cannabis products in the Great Lakes State.

Tribune News Service

Auto review: Cadillac Escalade Diesel is a vessel fit for a king

CHARLEVOIX, Michigan — Like a Great Lakes passenger ship, the bow of my Cadillac Escalade cut through the fog of an April snow shower. Sure-footed, diesel-powered, on autopilot to our port of call.

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Biden nominates Metro Detroit attorney to chair International Joint Commission

President Joe Biden nominated Southfield attorney Gerald Acker to be commissioner and chair of the International Joint Commission, a binational group that regulates use of the Great Lakes and other waters shared by the U.S. and Canada.

Chicago Sun-Times

Federal money to replace lead pipes is just a first step to cleaner drinking water in Chicago

An all-hands-on-deck approach is critical to ensuring all Chicagoans, and everyone across the Great Lakes region, has access to clean, safe, affordable drinking water.

Tribune News Service

Researchers thought they knew how PFAS get into the Great Lakes. Then they made a discovery

DETROIT — PFAS pollutants ride rivers across the Midwest and Canada to get to the Great Lakes. But not in the way a pair of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers studying the forever chemicals expected, and that could impact how environmental officials regulate the chemicals.

Chicago Tribune

Some Chicago birds are nesting nearly a month earlier than they did more than a century ago, study shows

CHICAGO -- Some Chicago birds are nesting nearly a month earlier than they did more than a century ago. And like some other shifts happening around the Great Lakes region as temperatures rise and the timing of the natural world drifts, there’s a familiar driver: climate change.

Chicago Tribune

With the arrival of spring temps, ice coverage on Lake Michigan is likely to end up just below average this season

CHICAGO — As ice coverage across the Great Lakes falls from winter highs with spring and summer warming ahead, Lake Michigan is likely to end up with a just-below-average season.

Salon

Biden plans to clean up the Great Lakes

"These sites were dangerously polluted for decades," Biden acknowledged. "We're committed to clean them up."

Chicago Tribune

Winter research in Great Lakes will help scientists understand climate change and what happens when ice disappears

CHICAGO — A group of scientists walked out on to frozen Lake Michigan to do something they’ve done time and again throughout the Great Lakes: collect water.

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