A big storm can overwhelm a treatment plant’s capacity, leading to storm and wastewater bypassing the plant and ending up untreated in the lake.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/rust-resilience-sewer-wastewater-infrastructure/
There has been a growing climate movement in Duluth, a city that advertises itself as an outdoor haven with access to fresh air, clean water and Lake Superior.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/rust-resilience-minnesota-climate-refuge-utility/
The Port of Duluth-Superior is one of the largest ports in the U.S., and its second largest commodity is coal.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/rust-resilience-coal-port-minnesota/
Increasing erosion on the Great Lakes shoreline is threatening beaches, parks and other recreation areas used by people across the region.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/rust-resilience-climate-change-shoreline-erosion/
As climate change makes heat waves more frequent across the region and the nation, cities will need more tools to protect their residents.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/rust-resilience-climate-extremes-weatherization/
This year’s Earth Day is a special one, and not just because it’s the 50th anniversary of the event.
With stay home orders and heavy social distancing recommendations in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the usual large gatherings of people to show support, clear trash and do more to help the planet just aren’t plausible.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/earth-day-2020-participate-from-home/
The city has begun short-term erosion mitigation measures along Chicago’s shoreline.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/rust-resilience-flood-chicago-climate-change/
Great Lakes Now is sharing work from our partners in a project on what climate change means for Great Lakes cities. Here is the initial piece in the series.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/rust-resilience-climate-change-great-lakes-cities/
PETOSKEY, Mich. (AP) — A portion of a popular paved trail along a Lake Michigan bay has collapsed due to erosion from high water.
The trail, called the Little Traverse Wheelway, is “falling into the lake as the wind continues and is very dangerous,” Petoskey Parks and Recreation Department said Monday on Facebook.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/ap-trail-collapse-erosion-lake-michigan/
This article was republished here with permission from Great Lakes Echo.
By Hunter Hicks, Great Lakes Now
The lack of ice across the Great Lakes region has business booming for those in the ice fishing industry fortunate enough to have safe conditions, but has left others high and dry.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/03/warm-weather-ice-fishing-industry/
In this month’s column from Great Lakes Now writer John Hartig, he looks at how climate change is impacting birds around the Great Lakes.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/03/black-terns-michigan-bird-climate-change/
Great Lakes Echo
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GreatLakesEcho/~3/jVxP9XVgoqM/
