Archive for May 2010
Colony collapse disorder is a scientific mystery in which bees suddenly disappear from their hives.
Large research projects are underway to determine the causes.
Scientists are looking at food sources, nutrition, diseases, viruses and parasites.
I know this Asian carp looks shocked, but I heard that he helped Jack Ruby sneak through.
Don’t forget to join in on the carp bomb fun. Read all about it here.
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations are farm operations where large numbers of animals are raised in confined facilities. The farms themselves also tend to concentrate.
Time Magazine just released a list of the world’s most influential individuals of 2010.
They include pioneers, pop stars and politicians.
Is the Great Lakes region adequately represented? Who did Time miss?
Twelve women line up, bows in hand. At the chirp of a whistle, they pick up their arrows, draw their bowstrings, and hit their targets with loud thwacks.
Michigan fishery managers recently released 325,000 coho salmon into the Grand River in the state’s capital.
Planting the Grand was skipped in 2007 and 2009 due to funding shortages.
The planting pause will let biologist study movement and survival of the fish.
When Echo launched a little more than a year ago, our intent was to upend the Great Lakes basin with a journalism that looked at the environment in an innovative manner.
At the same time we vowed to remain faithful to fundamental values of fairness, accuracy, credibility.
So we’re happy to report that the Society of Professional Journalists has named an Echo report on water pollution from coal plants as a national finalist for an online in-depth journalism award.
The four-day Cleaning Coal series by Sarah Coefield, Elisabeth Pernicone, Yang Zhang and Rachael …
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson name-dropped the Great Lakes recently while checking out the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
According to a Los Angeles Times blog post, Jackson flew over the spill and later said at a meeting in New Orleans that “it’s like all five of the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes are oil sheen.”
It’s good to know that the lakes are still on Jackson’s mind throughout this disaster, but her comparison is a bit of a stretch.
The Associated Press reported Sunday that the spill is roughly …
The first U.S. offshore wind project was approved last week off of the Massachusetts coast.
Could it encourage offshore wind production in the Great Lakes?
