BY MICHAEL HAWTHORNE, Chicago Tribune Governors from the eight Great Lakes states agreed Tuesday to allow a Wisconsin city to start pumping millions of gallons a day from Lake Michigan, marking the largest diversion of water from the lakes since Chicago reversed the flow of the Chicago River in 1900….
…home. It’s every bit as messy and hilarious as he is. —Erin Bergin, Northland College student and SONWA committee member Turning: A Year in the Water, by Jessica J. Lee (Penguin Random House Canada) Turning is a lyrical memoir truly exemplifying the spirit of human connection with nature. The author’s…
By Dan Kraker, MPRNews With its groundwater wells contaminated with radium and city leaders under court order to find a new water source, Waukesha, Wis., saw an obvious fix — tap Lake Michigan, just 15 miles to the east. The massive lake, one of the world’s largest freshwater sources, would…
Waukesha, Wisconsin has a contaminated groundwater supply and wants to take water from Lake Michigan, but it’s not that easy. Peter Annin, author of The Great Lakes Water Wars, and codirector of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation joins Stateside staff at Michigan Radio to talk about the…
The Chequamegon Water Collaborative (CWC), a Northland College student initiative, collaborated with Ashland Elementary School first graders Thursday, stenciling “Keep Our Bay Clean” artwork near storm drains in the city. The Collaborative has been working with regional schools to raise awareness about storm drains—that everything that flows into the drain,…
…policy has focused on the dangers of second-hand smoke but what about butts thrown onto the ground? Public policy also focuses on human impacts. Trevor wanted to know if cigarette butts in small bodies of water harmed invertebrates. They looked at vernal, or temporary ponds. They set up experiments, looked…
…of national forest, we have Lake Superior, the world’s largest fresh water lake in the world, in our backyard. The global issue of our time is climate change and for many reasons, Lake Superior is the ideal location to study climate change adaptation. Our faculty continues to adapt curriculum to…
…on big rivers like the Wisconsin where the water is open, and on lakes farther south. Once our lakes open up, they’ll be here, calling out for what certainly must be joy. Loons have a “divorce rate” of about seven percent. They are largely monogamous birds, but males compete with…
