The Great Lakes from Space. Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are essentially one large body of water, connected at the Straits of Mackinac. The St. Clair River drains these upper lakes into Lake Ontario. Photo: SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
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- Pipeline to channels Lake Erie water to grow tomatoes in Ontario. The Windsor Star
- Thunder Bay pilot in a Cessna dodges F-16s before landing on a highway in Missouri. No kidding. Toronto Globe and Mail
- UW Madison freshman studies 150 years of Bayfield ice records and finds evidence for climate change. Star Tribune
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- New Wilderness Areas in the Great Lakes Basin? Omnibus lands bill passes the House. The New York Times
- Proposed wind turbine assembly depot in the Port of Toledo. Toledo Blade
- The Werner Paddles blog highlights a couple new kayak designs from Pyranha and Liquid Logic. Werner Paddles
- Wind power trends. Great Britain takes steps to override local control of wind turbine siting. Manchester Guardian
- New El Niño study suggests that ocean weather pattern may have had big swings before human induced climate change started to develop. Toronto Globe and Mail
- Lamprey love on the rocks. Initial tests for the new sea lamprey traps are about to start. Scienceline
- New world-record waterfall descent. This one comes from Mark in our Colorado office. Looks like he over-rotates the dismount a bit… Daily Mirror UK
- Scientists meeting at Copenhagen Summit declare an urgent need to meet the challenge of climate change. The New York Times
- At the same time, a new Gallup poll shows that an increasing percentage of Americans see the climate threat as overblown. The New York Times
