http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Two feared species of Asian carp have zoomed beyond the $9 million electric barriers built to keep them out of Lake Michigan. Now, the only thing left between the carp and the Great Lakes is a lock and dam in southern Chicago. http://www.physorg.com/news178315636.html Biology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:40:01 EST news178315636 A group of federal agencies criticized in the past for failing to move quickly to stop Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes announced Friday that they're taking every precaution to keep them out, even poisoning thousands of fish next month to prevent any leaping, dangerous bighead or silver carp from escaping the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. http://www.physorg.com/news177506357.html Biology Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:21:13 EST news177506357 A day at the beach in Wisconsin's North Woods didn't used to go like this. Candy Dailey spent a Fourth of July holiday splashing with grandkids on the sandy shore of Lake Metonga when she felt a nasty sting on her foot. http://www.physorg.com/news176972286.html Biology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:59:07 EST news176972286 (PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Michigan-led research team is creating a comprehensive analysis and mapping of threats to the Great Lakes that will guide decision-making in the United States and Canada for years to come. http://www.physorg.com/news173036505.html Space & Earth Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:50:02 EST news173036505 Predicting harmful algal blooms, or HABs, in the Great Lakes is now a reality as NOAA announces an experimental HAB forecast system in Lake Erie. HABs produce toxins that may pose a significant risk to human and animal health through water recreation and may form scum that are unsightly and odorous to beach visitors, impacting the coastal economy. Forecasts depicting current and future locations of blooms, as well as intensity, will alert scientists and managers to possible threats to the Great Lakes beaches and assist in mitigation efforts. http://www.physorg.com/news172424327.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:40:01 EST news172424327 (AP) -- A federal report says the government is moving so slowly to clean up the most polluted sites in the Great Lakes that it will take 77 more years to finish the job at the current pace. http://www.physorg.com/news172257507.html Space & Earth Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:40:02 EST news172257507 The last stand in the battle to keep Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes is under way. The Army Corps began tests last week to see whether it can permanently crank up the power on its new electrical fish barrier on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to a strength that will actually turn back all sizes of the fish. http://www.physorg.com/news170360556.html Space & Earth Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:00:01 EST news170360556 Canadian scientists uncover alarming invasion of round goby into Great Lakes tributaries: impact on endangered fishes likely to be serious. http://www.physorg.com/news169211269.html Biology Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:08:33 EST news169211269 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Great Lakes are in the midst of a remarkable ecological transformation, driven largely by the blitzkrieg advance of two closely related species of non-native mussels. http://www.physorg.com/news166978895.html Space & Earth Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:40:04 EST news166978895 (AP) -- A pet Burmese python broke out of a glass cage last week and killed a 2-year-old girl in her Florida bedroom. The tragedy became the latest and most graphic example of a problem that has plagued the state for more than a decade: a nonnative species that is wreaking havoc in the Everglades, threatening people, the environment and native wildlife. http://www.physorg.com/news166298108.html Biology Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:55:32 EST news166298108 Deep beneath Lake Huron, signs of the Great Lakes' first human settlers are emerging. http://www.physorg.com/news165753727.html Other Sciences Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:42:44 EST news165753727 Fifty years ago Friday, President Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II walked down a red carpet, climbed aboard a "floating palace" of a yacht named Britannia and ceremoniously sailed through the St. Lambert lock near Montreal to hail the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. http://www.physorg.com/news165255219.html Space & Earth Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:20:02 EST news165255219 Last year's passage of the Great Lakes compact sent a thundering message to the rest of the country: Every drop of water in the world's largest freshwater system counts. http://www.physorg.com/news165051654.html Space & Earth Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:17:49 EST news165051654 Scientists have found the existence of two types of males of a fiercely invasive fish spreading through the Great Lakes, which may provide answers as to how they rapidly reproduce. http://www.physorg.com/news164282737.html Biology Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:05:55 EST news164282737 (AP) -- The United States and Canada say they will update a key agreement to protect the Great Lakes from invasive species, climate change and other established and emerging threats to the world's biggest surface freshwater system. http://www.physorg.com/news164164587.html Space & Earth Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:17:06 EST news164164587 More than 100 feet deep in Lake Huron, on a wide stoney ridge that 9,000 years ago was a land bridge, University of Michigan researchers have found the first archeological evidence of human activity preserved beneath the Great Lakes. http://www.physorg.com/news163700761.html Other Sciences Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:26:32 EST news163700761 (AP) -- Cameron Davis, leader of a Chicago-based environmentalist group, has been appointed to oversee President Barack Obama's initiative to clean up the Great Lakes. http://www.physorg.com/news163361262.html Space & Earth Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:08:04 EST news163361262 (AP) -- A budget proposal from the Obama administration would spend $475 million on beach cleanups, wetlands restoration and removal of toxic sediments from river bottoms around the Great Lakes. http://www.physorg.com/news161595128.html Space & Earth Fri, 15 May 2009 08:34:55 EST news161595128 Scientists studying submerged sinkholes in the Great Lakes off the coast of northern Michigan have stumbled onto something they never expected to find: life forms akin to those found in some of Earth's most extreme environments. http://www.physorg.com/news160645491.html Biology Mon, 04 May 2009 08:53:33 EST news160645491 A handful of ravenous, venomous lionfish, a species native to the western Pacific, were spotted off North Carolina in 2000. Turns out they like it here. A lot. http://www.physorg.com/news159706864.html Biology Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:01:42 EST news159706864 (AP) -- Ice cover on the Great Lakes has declined more than 30 percent since the 1970s, leaving the world's largest system of freshwater lakes open to evaporation and lower water levels, according to scientists associated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. http://www.physorg.com/news157053733.html Space & Earth Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:03:50 EST news157053733 It took some of America's best engineers, thousands of laborers and two years of around-the-clock concrete pouring to build the 726-foot-high Hoover Dam back in the 1930s. It took less time than that for the tiny, brainless quagga mussel to bring operators of this modern wonder of the world to their knees. http://www.physorg.com/news155241159.html Biology Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:33:22 EST news155241159 Researchers are exploring extreme conditions for life in a place not known for extremes. http://www.physorg.com/news154721462.html Space & Earth Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:11:38 EST news154721462 The quick decline of a tiny shrimp-like species, known scientifically as Diporeia, isrelated to the aggressive population growth of non-native quagga mussels in the Great Lakes, say NOAA scientists. As invasive mussel numbers increase, food sources for Diporeia and many aquatic species have steadily and unilaterally declined. http://www.physorg.com/news154265065.html Biology Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:24:52 EST news154265065 Field work and computer simulations in Michigan and Wisconsin are helping biofuels researchers understand the basics of getting home-grown energy from the field to consumers. Preliminary results presented today suggest that incorporating native, perennial plants during biofuels production reduces emissions of greenhouse gases, improves water quality and enhances biodiversity. The results are part of an experimental effort to make biofuels economically and environmentally sustainable. http://www.physorg.com/news153758280.html Other Sciences Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:38:30 EST news153758280 A synthetic chemical version of what male sea lampreys use to attract spawning females can lure them into traps and foil the mating process of the destructive invasive species, according to Michigan State University scientists. http://www.physorg.com/news151761214.html Chemistry Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:53:59 EST news151761214 The water level in the Great Lakes has varied by only about two meters during the last century, helping them to play a vital role in the region's shipping, fishing, recreation and power generation industries. http://www.physorg.com/news151063703.html Space & Earth Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:08:23 EST news151063703 An anticipated increased incidence of climate-related extreme rainfall events in the Great Lakes region may raise the public health risk for the 40 million people who depend on the lakes for their drinking water, according to a new study. http://www.physorg.com/news142703663.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:54:23 EST news142703663 Long a problem in the western U.S., the New Zealand mud snail currently inhabits four of the five Great Lakes and is spreading into rivers and tributaries, according to a Penn State team of researchers. These tiny creatures out-compete native snails and insects, but are not good fish food replacements for the native species. http://www.physorg.com/news137401949.html Biology Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:12:29 EST news137401949 Pipe-clogging invasive mussels caused up to $1.5 billion in damage across 23 states between 1989 and 2007. Now, fingernail-sized quagga mussels, a close relative of zebra mussels, have spread to the West and threaten to do even more damage. http://www.physorg.com/news134144260.html Space & Earth Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:17:40 EST news134144260