Roughly 10,000 tons of plastic enter the Great Lakes every year, and scientists want to know where it ends up. There are some parallels to ocean plastics, but also important differences.
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Ocean plastic has gained notoriety, but we’re starting to realize that microplastics pollute our freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems too.
The competition between the two authoritarian regimes has become a fact that, given the regional context, is here to last. It justifies repression and indefinitely postpones democratic expression.
The same conditions – ultimately tied to nutrient runoff – that created the damaging toxic blooms and dead zones in US waterways of recent years are forecast to return this year.
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Professor of Practice & Engagement, School for Environment & Sustainability; Director of the University of Michigan Water Center, University of Michigan
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Director and Professor, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor
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Chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Knowledge Mobilization Specialist, Water Institute, University of Waterloo
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Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, Western Michigan University
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Professor in Department of Earth and Environmental Science, and Dean of Science, University of Waterloo
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Professor Emeritus of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan
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Professor and Director of the Center for Water Policy, School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Research Associate Professor, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo
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Assistant Professor of Architecture, University at Buffalo
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Professor and York University Research Chair in Global Change Biology; Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research Global Water Academy, York University, Canada
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Professor of Biogeochemistry and Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Ecohydrology, University of Waterloo
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Visiting Scholar, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor
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Professor, Department of Biology & Bieler School of Environment, McGill University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Microbiology, University of Tennessee