A board of scientists has proposed a system to monitor microplastics in the Great Lakes. Currently, there’s no coordinated ...

longimanus and its effects on the ecosystem, revealing that the mechanisms ... Biotic and thermal drivers alter zooplankton phenology in western Lake Erie, Limnology and Oceanography Letters ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The ice cover on Lake Erie has melted substantially since peaking last month. The Thursday reading from the ...

Blue-green algae also harms the Lake Erie ecosystem. As the cyanobacteria die, they settle to the bottom of the lake, creating a feast for microbes that consume oxygen as they devour the remains. That ...

Lake Erie, the shallowest of the five Great Lakes, last froze over in 1996. With ice covering more than 95% of the lake on Thursday, and continued winter weather in the forecast, could the ...

The water levels in Lake Erie continue to decline as winter progresses, as predicted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In January, the water levels in Lake Erie reached a high level of 571.56 ...

and more recently by the outbreak of toxic algal blooms in Lake Erie. Perhaps the most dramatic assault on the Great Lakes ecosystem occurred decades ago, perpetrated by an invasive species called ...

Cold air. Proper bouts of snow. And Lake Erie is mostly iced over. As of Feb. 18, 2025 Lake Erie is 94.78% iced over (scroll down to see a satellite picture of the Lake). This is stark change to ...