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Topic: Great Lakes

Horacio Romero of Toledo, Ohio, looks at algae in Lake Erie at Maumee Bay State Park on Aug. 4, 2014. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)

Toxic algae are back. We're all at risk

Patrick Wensink
Big fresh carp (Voren1 via Getty Images) (Voren1 via Getty Images)

A $1.2 billion fish barricade

Tom Johnson - Undark
Sea Lampreys, Petromyzon marinus, are an invasive species in the Great Lakes (Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

Lampreys taking over the Great Lakes

REBECCA REDELMEIER - Undark
Young female and male environmentalist cleaning lake while picking plastic from claw (Getty Images/Maskot)

Biden plans to clean up the Great Lakes

Eric Schank
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Photo taken on Jan. 15, 2022 shows the frozen Lake Ontario in Toronto, Canada. Extreme cold weather with the temperature as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius covered Toronto from Friday to Saturday. (Photo by (Zou Zheng/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Climate change hits the Great Lakes

Diana Kruzman - Grist
The waters of Lake Michigan crashes over the pedestrian walk as fog rolls through the Chicago skyline in Chicago, Illinois. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

It's raining PFAS in the Great Lakes

Jena Brooker - Grist
FILE - In this June 13, 2012 file photo, Asian carp, jolted by an electric current from a research boat, jump from the Illinois River near Havana, Ill. An effort is under way to reintroduce alligator gar into lakes, rivers and backwaters of several states possibly to help control populations of the invasive carp. (AP Photo/John Flesher, File) (AP)

Republicans block Asian carp dam plan

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
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Restocking wolves on Isle Royale

Mark Neuzil, Eric Freedman - The Conversation
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FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2014, file photo, the City of Toledo water intake crib is surrounded by algae in Lake Erie, off the shore of Curtice, Ohio. Groups working to solve Lake Erie’s algae outbreaks agree that a key step will be targeting areas that are sending much of the algae-feeding phosphorus into the lake. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File) (AP)

Saving the Great Lakes

Valerie Vande Panne - Independent Media Institute
(AP Photo/John Flesher, File)

Matthew Rozsa
(Kamira/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-553864p1.html'>Frantisek Czanner</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Jason Bittel
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