Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Algae Bloom Dead Zones in the Great Lakes

by Muskegon Critic

I'll get to my environmental topic in a moment, plus a little extra BP angry-candy. But first, it's been hot. Crazy hot. To give you an idea of how crazy hot, last frost isn't until June 4th  here. And yet it's been getting close to the 90s. We've had an early summer here this year, and people are doing the Summer thing early, dressing down to their swimmies and heading down to the water's edge to get some cool, free relief from the heat...and maybe to watch other people who have dressed down to their swimmies. Today I went down to the Big Lake on another beautiful day and found a thin, green film floating atop the water. Algae. Growing in the heat.

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