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Tragic Loss: 10-Year-Old Boy Swept Away In Lake Erie

Tragic incident at Lake Erie beach as 10-year-old Hunter Ebie swept away by rip current, highlighting the importance of water safety awareness.

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Losing winter ice is changing the Great Lakes food web – here’s how light is shaping life underwater

Winters on the Great Lakes are harsh – so much so that the scientists who work there often focus on the summer months, when tiny microbes at the base of the food chain were thought to be most productive.

The Conversation

Aurora photos: Stunning northern lights glisten after biggest geomagnetic storm in 21 years

An immense geomagnetic storm caused auroras as far south as Florida for the first time in 21 years after the sun unleashed a wave of solar flares and at least seven coronal mass ejections at Earth.

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The best places in Canada to see the 2024 total solar eclipse

On April 8, 2024, all of Canada will see at least a partial solar eclipse, but parts of Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada will experience totality.

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Where will the April 2024 total solar eclipse be visible from?

On April 8, 2024, North America will experience a partial solar eclipse, but from parts of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada it will be possible to experience totality.

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Strikers have shut down a vital Great Lakes shipping artery for days, and negotiations are looming

A strike has shut down all shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway, interrupting exports of grain and other goods from Canada and the United States via the Great Lakes to the rest the world

The Independent UK

Another walleye fishing tourney marred by cheating scandal

Another fishing tournament is in the spotlight because of a cheating scandal – this time involving Lake Erie walleye that had allegedly been stuffed with smaller fish to make them appear heavier.

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'My neighbour put up fence - now I have to squeeze through tiny gap to get inside door'

Sarfaraz Ali can no longer access his lakeside home on Lake Erie, Ontario after neighbour Oscar VanderHeide erected a large fence which now blocks the private road

Daily Mirror

Tell Congress to give EPA enough power to protect our nation’s wetlands

A bipartisan majority in Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972 because rivers were on fire, fish were dying, and Lake Erie was labeled “functionally dead.” The Supreme Court should not be allowed to rewrite the Act and ignore 45 years of practices to protect the environment and public…

Chicago Sun-Times

Judge sets a deadline to put Lake Erie on pollution diet

Ohio will have until the end of June to finish a plan to aimed at combating toxic algae blooms that have flourished in Lake Erie since the late 1990s

The Independent UK

Lake Erie record smallmouth bass rare because of size, but also age

Biologists have determined that a 10.15-pound smallmouth bass reeled from Lake Erie last November was a 16-year-old female.

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Chicago outdoors: Look-alike deer, nuisance animals, Illinois’ last elk, no ice and Put-in-Bay

A herd of look-alike deer in Crete, what do to about a nuisance bobcat, Illinois’ last wild elk and no-ice impacts on Put-in-Bay island on Lake Erie are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

Chicago Sun-Times

Iranian Foundation Offers Land to Salman Rushdie’s Attacker

An Iranian foundation has praised a man accused of severely injuring novelist Salman Rushdie in an attack last year and promised him 1,000 sq metres of agricultural land, state TV reported on Tuesday on its Telegram channel. Rushdie, 75, lost an eye and the use of one hand following the…

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The town that forged Super Bowl brothers Travis and Jason Kelce: ‘No place like’ it

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — The winds off Lake Erie were gusting at 5 below zero. Snow dusted everything. Joe D’Amato, the athletic director at Cleveland Heights High, bundled into his coat and walked from the school’s east exit through biting air to the football field not 70 feet away.

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In Florida, ‘now golf carts are cool’ — not just for retirees

DUNEDIN, Fla. — Chris Kelly spent parts of his boyhood summers in the village of Put-in-Bay, Ohio, on Lake Erie’s verdant South Bass Island. Because the island was accessible only by boat or plane, it had few cars; most people there drove golf carts. To young Chris, this was undeniably…

The Independent UK

Parts of NY dig out after potentially 'historic' snowfall

Parts of New York are finally catching a break after a storm dumped snow for days on cities and towns east of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario

The Guardian - UK

Weather tracker: Great Lakes region of US hit by lake-effect snow

Buffalo City on edges of Lake Erie and Watertown on Lake Ontario among areas deluged with huge snowfall

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Record smallmouth bass reeled from Lake Erie; ‘I was trembling’

An Ohio angler has caught the largest smallmouth bass ever reeled from Lake Erie and the Great Lakes.

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Metal detectors, polygraph tests to come in wake of Lake Erie fishing tournament scandal

PITTSBURGH — Fish stories just aren't what they used to be. To be believed, you'd better have live-streaming video, a digital scale and a lawyer. Now big-money fishing tournaments are even turning to metal detectors to prevent anglers from cheating.

The Independent UK

Fisherman plead not guilty to charges in tournament scandal

Two men accused of stuffing five walleye with lead weights and fish filets during a lucrative fishing tournament on Lake Erie have pleaded not guilty to cheating and other charges

The Independent UK

Clean Water Act at 50: environmental gains, challenges unmet

Fifty years ago, Congress passed the Clean Water Act to protect U.S. waterways from abuses like the oily industrial pollution that caused Ohio's Cuyahoga River to catch on fire in 1969

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Script flips on Steelers in second half as they stumble in Cleveland

CLEVELAND — These Thursday night affairs on the banks of Lake Erie are becoming quite the chore for the Steelers. Three years after a memorable late-week loss to the Browns in primetime, one that ended with an all-out brawl, Cleveland pushed over the Steelers legally this time in a 29-17…

Chicago Sun-Times

Bears, Justin Fields looking for success at scene of last year’s low point

The quarterback was sacked nine times and hit on six more occasions in the Bears’ 26-6 loss on Sept. 26. On the shores of Lake Erie, head coach Matt Nagy’s offense totaled 47 yards — the franchise’s fewest in 40 years — on 42 plays.

The Conversation

To reduce harmful algal blooms and dead zones, the US needs a national strategy for regulating farm pollution

Midsummer is the time for forecasts of the size of this year’s “dead zones” and algal blooms in major lakes and bays. Will the Gulf of Mexico dead zone be the size of New Jersey, or only as big as Connecticut? Will Lake Erie’s bloom blossom to a human health…

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Toxic algae in the Great Lakes

In Toledo, Ohio, monitoring and treating algae-contaminated water from Lake Erie costs $100 per family per year

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