Environment
May 13, 2022
Colorado has been unusually windy this spring. Here's why you should care
Think it's been unusually windy on the Front Range this spring? You're right.
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Environment
May 9, 2022
With better algal forecasts comes safer water
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and collaborators have used a new technique to better forecast the level of algal toxins that accumulate in Lake Erie every year.
Earth Sciences
May 9, 2022
Lake Erie quakes triggered by shifting water levels? Study finds no smoking gun, urges further research
In June 2019, a magnitude 4.0 earthquake occurred beneath Lake Erie just off the shoreline of Ohio, about 20 miles northeast of Cleveland.
Plants & Animals
May 2, 2022
Using tiny sensors to monitor migrating monarchs
Millions of monarch butterflies migrate each fall to a specific cluster of mountain peaks in central Mexico. How exactly they navigate to their winter home, and the way they choose their path, is a topic of great interest ...
Environment
Apr 21, 2022
Cleaner Earth: Healing ozone hole, less smog, more eagles
With climate change, plastic pollution and a potential sixth mass extinction, humanity has made some incredible messes in the world.
Environment
Mar 31, 2022
A new threat emerges for US lakes and rivers. Your lawn or toilet may be partly to blame
Runoff from roads, lawns, farms and old septic tanks is polluting US waterways, driving harmful algae blooms.
Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2022
Researchers thought they knew how PFAS get into the Great Lakes. Then they made a discovery
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 ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2022
With the arrival of spring temps, ice coverage on Lake Michigan is likely to end up just below average this season
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.
Astronomy
Mar 14, 2022
Still searching for Planet 9
The solar system has eight planets. In 2006, astronomers reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet, the same class that contains Eris, Sedna, Quaoar, Ceres and perhaps many more solar system small bodies. These are defined approximately ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 2, 2022
Winter research in Great Lakes will help scientists understand climate change and what happens when ice disappears
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.
