Participants in NMC's AquaHacking challenge. (Photo: Jacqueline Southby, courtesy of NMC)This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. A business competition to tackle environmental and infrastructure issues in the Great Lakes kicked off last week. Water quality, microplastics, PFAS and marine infrastructure are among the things people could grapple with in this year’s G…

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Science board seeks action by Canada and the U.S. on microplastics in Great Lakes

Washington, D.C. will be focusing on the Great Lakes this week. That’s as experts from the University of Michigan will testify to the importance of the lakes. The experts include environment professor Mike Shriberg, who will talk about how environmental issues like what happens when the lakes fail to reach a normal winter freeze and how that affects the economy and shoreline. “But beyond the sort of recreational impacts, that ice actually provid…

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Canada and the U.S. are being asked by the science advisory board for the International Joint Commission to designate microplastics as a chemical of mutual concern under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.

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Meeting Takes Place Wednesday, February 12th, 2025 at 1 P.M. An Invite from the Canada-U.S. International Joint Commission Science Advisory Board  Posted February 4th, 2025 on Niagara At Large 
Our Great Lakes – the largest reservoir of fresh water in the world – from space. Microplastics are present in all five of the Great Lakes, but there is no coordinated, basin-wide effort to monitor and report on the status of plastic pollution. 
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