More than 22 million pounds of plastic pollution end up in the Great Lakes every year, according to the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Chemicals, toxic pollutants, pesticides and heavy metals entered the Great Lakes; they flowed from thousands of factory discharge pipes and sewage plants, ...

Ways that humans have affected the quality of the Great Lakes water over the centuries include sewage disposal, toxic contamination through heavy metals and ...

The air is a major source of chemicals affecting the health of the Great Lakes. Certain persistent air toxics. may contribute not only to atmospheric pollution ...

23 апр. 2024 г. · Every year, around 22 million pounds of plastic pollute the Great Lakes, with over half of this waste entering Lake Michigan.

Agriculture is the largest contributor to pollution in western Lake Erie where, in 2014, nearly a half-million people lost access to safe tap water for two days ...

The green clouds of harmful algae plaguing Lake Erie for more than a decade are fueled by phosphorus pollution from the growing number of concentrated animal ...

17 авг. 2023 г. · About 90% of water samples taken over the last 10 years from the Great Lakes contain microplastic levels that are unsafe for wildlife, a new peer-reviewed paper

24 февр. 2022 г. · Due to decades of industrial, agricultural, and urban pollution, the Five Great Lakes are experiencing poorer water quality, habitat degradation and ...

15 авг. 2022 г. · Since the 1990s, studies have identified toxic pollutants including PCBs, DDT and chlordane in and around the Great Lakes, as well as lead, ...