"Researchers from the University of Cincinnati and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, completed a roughly 35-year study on water flow that included a comprehensive analysis of millions of rivers around the world.

Their study, published in the journal Science, found that average flow volumes have risen in headwaters and dropped in basin outlets since 1984. One result of these changes is a higher risk of major floods."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/researchers-sound-alarm-findings-35-104505820.html

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Fish-eating gulls and terns nesting on Michigan shoreline areas known to have long-standing industrial contamination reproduce less, have fewer chicks that survive and develop more deformities than those on nonpolluted shorelines, a decadelong field study by Calvin University researchers found.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/01/28/calvin-university-fish-gulls-birds-pollution-water/77971796007/

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Scientists want the U.S. and Canada to designate microplastics as a “chemical of mutual concern.”

The recommendation is part of a new report on how to monitor microplastics in the Great Lakes, released by the Great Lakes Science Advisory Board at the International Joint Commission, an organization that helps the U.S. and Canada tackle water quality issues together.

https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-01-22/scientists-want-microplastics-monitored-in-the-great-lakes-now-its-up-to-the-u-s-and-canada

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To try to understand how harmful algal blooms might evolve in Lake Erie in a warming climate, University of Michigan scientists helped conduct a survey of cyanobacteria in a gulf of Kenya's Lake Victoria.
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-kenya-lake-victoria-cyanobacteria-erie.html

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