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What the Climate’s ‘New Normal’ Is Doing to Lake Superior
Minnesota has shoreline on only one Great Lake, but it happens to be the greatest: largest, clearest, coldest and, until recently, seemingly least vulnerable to various environmental afflictions elsewhere in the five-lake basin. The world’s biggest lake by surface area, Superior happens to hold one-tenth of the fresh water on the face of the Earth.
KBJR6: A Changing Lake
Large Storms Creating Issues for Lake Superior According to Study
ASHLAND, WI– Larger than normal storms over the last several years are causing issues for Lake Superior, according to a group of researchers at Northland College in Ashland. Researchers there released a study on Tuesday breaking down the impact climate change has on the lake and what issues it’s causing. “Since 2012 we have experienced
DNT: Storms, Erosion and Algae Blooms Part of ‘New Normal’ for Lake Superior, Report Says
Northland College Report Says Climate Change is Spurring Unusual Results for Big Lake
Increasingly larger storms, more frequent heavy rains and higher water levels — likely spurred by global climate change — are not only roiling the waters of Lake Superior but also damaging the big lake’s water quality. That’s the analysis of a “white paper’’ report released Tuesday by researchers at Northland College’s Mary Griggs Burke Center
WPR: Report Recommends Rewrite of Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
White Paper Suggest More Holistic Approach to Water Quality Management
A new report from Northland College in Ashland recommends that the United States and Canada rewrite its principal agreement that provides a framework for improving water quality on the Great Lakes. The white paper released Tuesday by the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation at Northland College highlights water quality concerns on Lake Superior
Stolen Sisters on Lake Superior
10,000 Native American Women Reported Missing
When I stepped on the campus of Northland College in the fall of 2018, I walked softly. Leaving my homeland in New Mexico was a drastic change, but like many students, I made the journey for an education. Entering college for the first time, I expected labs, lectures, and libraries. I didn’t expect that so
Binational Commission Hears Concerns About The Great Lakes
International Joint Commission Listens As Campus and Community Detail Issues Threatening Water Quality
Climate change, algal blooms and pollution from a variety of sources were highlighted as chief concerns among roughly 200 community members who shared their views on issues impacting water quality on the Great Lakes at a public meeting held by the International Joint Commission. The event Wednesday hosted at Northland College in Ashland was among
Home Before the Holidays
Teege and David Mettille Host the Annual Rainbow Dinner
Holidays for LGBTQ youth can be tense and intense, filled with family confrontations, awkwardness, and outright hostility. “It’s awful,” says David Mettille, coordinator for student affairs and advisor for the Alliance, a student organization for the campus LGBTQ community. And while some write off the holidays forever, David decided to go in another direction. He… Read More →
Diversity Every Day, All Day
Q&A with Ruth deJesus
Ruth de Jesus was hired last year as the first diversity and inclusion coordinator at Northland College. De Jesus has spent her adult life working with nonprofits, earned her master of divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and has served students of color and advancing equity in higher education. Buckles: What’s on the minds of students… Read More →
A Terrific Book on Great Lakes Water Conflicts Gets a Timely, Thorough Update
Review of Peter Annin's Great Lakes Water Wars
You can get the feeling on reading Peter Annin’s new edition of his terrific book, “The Great Lakes Water Wars,” that much has happened—but too little has changed—in the control of self-interested resource grabs since the first edition came out a dozen years ago. The news back in 2006 was that the Great Lakes Compact… Read More →
Wis. Lets Village Go to Town on Great Lakes Water
Peter Annin uncovered documents about the expanded Pleasant Prairie diversion in reporting for second edition of The Great Lakes Water Wars.
Governors from all eight Great Lakes states had to sign off before Waukesha, Wis., could siphon water out of Lake Michigan. When Foxconn Technology Group wanted to dip a straw into the lake for its new electronics factory west of Racine, the Taiwan-based company had to undergo a rigorous legal review and lay out its… Read More →