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Our Great Lakes: Awash in Plastic
Great Waste in the Great Lakes: How Plastic Pollution Is Clogging Our Waters
Michael Hawthorne
StoryReach U.S. Fellow
May 31, 2026
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Our Great Lakes: Awash in Plastic
As Plastics Clog the Great Lakes, Industry Presses To Make More and Downplays Dangers, Tribune Analysis Finds
Michael Hawthorne
StoryReach U.S. Fellow
May 31, 2026
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Climate Change: Great Lakes, High Stakes
The Battle for Lake Michigan: As Beaches Erode, Millions of Dollars Have Been Poured Into Temporary Solutions. Can Anyone Find a Long-Term Fix?
Patrick O’Connell
Grantee
November 23, 2020
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Climate Change: Great Lakes, High Stakes
The Story of ‘Michigan’s Pompeii’: How the Small Town of Singapore Was Forgotten Beneath the Sand
Patrick O’Connell
Grantee
November 20, 2020
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Climate Change: Great Lakes, High Stakes
Big Problems for Smallest Great Lake: More Precipitation, Warmer Temperatures and Controversial Regulation Plan Upend Life Along Lake Ontario
Patrick O’Connell
Grantee
September 1, 2020
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Climate Change: Great Lakes, High Stakes
The Wilds of one Lake Ontario Bay Reveal how Coastal Habitats Suffer from a Changing Climate and Human Choices
Patrick O’Connell
Grantee
September 1, 2020
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Exodus in the Indian Ocean
‘There’s No More Water’: Climate Change on a Drying Island
Tommy Trenchard
International RJF Grantee
April 17, 2020
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Climate Change: Great Lakes, High Stakes
Ice Shapes Economy, Identity of Lake Superior’s Coastal Towns. But It’s Disappearing: ‘Culture Is Defined by How the World Around Us Looks — and Now That’s Changing’
Multiple Authors
March 19, 2020
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On the Largest Freshwater Island in the World, Lake Huron’s Native Americans Warn of the Fragility of Water
Multiple Authors
January 14, 2020
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Homeowners Near the Great Lakes Face a ‘Very Scary’ Challenge: How Do You Handle a Generation’s Worth of Water Level Changes in Just a Few Years?
Multiple Authors
January 10, 2020
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Climate Change: Great Lakes, High Stakes
In the Great Lakes’ Most Productive Fishing Grounds, Algae-Fueled Dead Zones Are Eroding Livelihoods
Multiple Authors
November 17, 2019
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Climate Change: Great Lakes, High Stakes
Cleveland Residents Are Used to Their Water Being Brown, Even if They Don’t Know Why. The Answer Lies at the Bottom of Lake Erie.
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November 17, 2019
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![Kenneth "Captain Ken" Kloster Sr. pilots his boat to his home on Dollar Island in Les Cheneaux Islands on Lake Huron in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on Nov. 23, 2019. He bought the island in 1981 right before record setting high water levels of 1986. Image by Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune. United States, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/quvk74xkinaljnhutwkbrlbn5m.jpg.webp?h=c9f93661&itok=Gfoei4y6 "Kenneth "Captain Ken" Kloster Sr. pilots his boat to his home on Dollar Island in Les Cheneaux Islands on Lake Huron in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on Nov. 23, 2019. He bought the island in 1981 right before record setting high water levels of 1986. Image by Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune. United States, 2020.")
