According to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Lake Erie will suffer a harmful algae bloom this summer, and may cause a public health crisis in the cities near the Great Lakes. Scientists claim this year’s algae bloom could be just second to one of the worst algae invasions that ever it […]
Lake Erie is the smallest of the Great Lakes and it suffers from what are called “dead zones,” or areas of depleted oxygen levels. Without oxygen in the water, aquatic life like fish cannot survive in these dead zones, which poses a problem for the Great Lakes’ largest producer of fish. As scientists research these […]
Lake Erie’s troubled ecological past is a story of how colonization, manufacturing and agriculture destroyed thriving wildlife and contaminated the water. Lake Erie is one of the Great Lakes, which hold a significant percentage of the Earth’s freshwater, and the lake has suffered toxic chemical contamination. In the early 1800’s colonization around the shores of […]
