These types of blooms were not new in Lake Erie, as they occurred every summer ... These chemicals often come from fertilizers used in farming and polluted rivers. While a small amount of these ...

which feeds into Lake Erie. This includes high levels of E. coli, phosphorus and grease, which the agency warns could threaten human health, plants and wildlife. A statement from Campbell said the ...

Most, including Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, shy away from regulation in favor of promoting programs that pay farmers to voluntarily rein in pollution. Ontario’s plan for Lake Erie also emphasizes ...

When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...

The H2Ohio initiative, launched in 2019, aims to improve water quality across the state by reducing algal blooms, pollution and ... quality in the Western Lake Erie Basin due to the region ...

Erie County Legislators Dixon and Mills propose ... in contrast to the harm from lake pollution, habitat loss and climate change caused by fossil fuels. What: Members of the Sierra Club, organized ...

Gulls and terns studied in known polluted shoreline areas had a host of worse health and reproductive outcomes than those in nonpolluted areas.

Biologist Chris Winslow visited The Ohio State University-Lima campus Tuesday to speak to students from Lima Senior and South Science about farming’s impact on Lake Erie. LIMA — A biologist ...

As for Lake Erie, there’s work to be done in that department as well, but we’ve come a long way towards cleaning up our polluted industrial past along the Buffalo River, and elsewhere.

The Great Lakes have a long history of pollution and efforts to combat it. The state of Lake Erie was dire enough to attract the attention of Dr. Seuss in a since-removed line from “The Lorax ...

Grand Traverse Bay's pollution is chlorinated dioxins and ... area size in upland areas continued to decline even as rising Lake Erie waters over the last five years washed out beaches and applied ...