Hacker News with Generative AI: Great Lakes

Trump Decimates NOAA Lab Protecting Great Lakes from Toxic Algae Blooms (propublica.org)
Just one year ago, JD Vance was a leading advocate of the Great Lakes and the efforts to restore the largest system of freshwater on the face of the planet.

Politics, Environment, Great Lakes, Algae Blooms

10 points by whalesalad 17 days ago | 0 comments

Federal Firings Threaten Great Lakes' $5B Fishery (insideclimatenews.org)
Sweeping layoffs of federal employees have struck the program responsible for controlling the invasive sea lamprey that threatens fish across the Great Lakes, the earth’s largest freshwater ecosystem.

Government, Environmental Issues, Invasive Species, Great Lakes, Fisheries

33 points by rntn 83 days ago | 2 comments

5-plus feet of snow and counting: More snow is coming to the Great Lakes (cnn.com)

Weather, Great Lakes, Snow

6 points by LinuxBender 171 days ago | 1 comments

Reexamination of 1975 "Edmund Fitzgerald" Storm Using Today's Technology [pdf] (noaa.gov)

Weather, Technology, History, Great Lakes

13 points by jandrewrogers 194 days ago | 1 comments

MI couple running out of time to prove they found Great Lakes' oldest shipwreck (lansingstatejournal.com)
Helene's explosive forecast one of the 'most aggressive' in history Trump claims Iran wants to assassinate him to sow havoc in US DOJ is suing Visa. What the antitrust lawsuit could mean for you. Marcellus Williams executed in Missouri amid strong innocence claims

History, Shipwrecks, Great Lakes, Lawsuits, Crime

41 points by rmason 242 days ago | 35 comments

Feral goldfish are threatening the Great Lakes ecosystem [video] (pbs.org)

Environment, Ecology, Invasive Species, Great Lakes

37 points by peutetre 364 days ago | 7 comments