With warming temperatures, fluctuating water levels and a series of extreme storms, Lake Superior is undergoing dramatic alterations amid climate change.
Great Lakes
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Water could make the Great Lakes a climate refuge. Are we prepared?
For all climate change has wrought, Michigan and the Great Lakes region — with an abundance of fresh water, warming winters and less fire-prone forests — stand to attract millions of new residents in future decades eager to escape flooded coastal areas and the parched land of the West.
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Opinion | What can reconcile our painful political differences? Nature.
In Michigan, the Great Lakes manifest our attachment to nature and overcome our political differences.
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Public Concern: Climate change, runoff and chemicals at the forefront of people’s worries about the Great Lakes
Climate change was propelled “from the 15th most-mentioned in 2017 to today’s top concern,” the report said.
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As Great Lakes pummel Michigan, beach towns rush to set development rules
Facing widespread coastal damage amid record high water levels, some lakeshore communities are rethinking policies that allowed people to build too close to the water.
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Q & A: The Great Lakes are stressed. Climate change is making it worse.
The lead author of a new report sheds light on how climate change, invasive species, nutrient pollution and other Great Lakes problems are interacting in ways that make the lakes’ health even worse…or in some cases, not quite as bad.
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Loved to death: Iconic Michigan lakeshores battered by crowds, waste
National parklands at Pictured Rocks and Sleeping Bear Dunes are overrun by traffic, hikers, trash and failing septic systems. Record crowds outpace stagnant federal funding, leaving park rangers feeling helpless.
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Michigan’s coast is being armored with seawalls, making erosion worse
Desperate to save homes from encroaching waves, shoreline property owners are hardening shorelines on the Great Lakes at a feverish pace. Experts fear these barriers will do harm in the long term.
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As Great Lakes rise, less sand for Michigan beachgoers during coronavirus
Record-breaking Great Lakes water levels already wreak havoc on Michigan’s coastline. Now, they’re creating a new problem: How to maintain social distance at beaches reduced to a sliver of sand?
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Wary of water safety, Michigan residents want stronger regulation
Polling by The Center for Michigan of more than 3,100 residents shows broad support for increased regulations to protect waterways and heightened anxieties about their safety.