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For anyone looking to stage a D-Day invasion, run scuba tours in the Caribbean or cruise Lake Michigan with 200 of your closest friends — the U.S. Navy has a boat for you. And maybe a bargain. Two landing craft — the kind that that can plow through su ...

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Central Africa: U.S Appoints New Special Envoy for Great Lakes

Source: AllAfrica.com | Jun 19 2013, 7:08am CDT

After months of rumours, the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has finally appointed former Senator Russ Feingold as the new US Special Envoy for the Great Lakes and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is another sign that the internationa ...

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Advocacy Groups Welcome New U.S Great Lakes Envoy

Source: AllAfrica.com | Jun 19 2013, 6:03am CDT

Nineteen advocacy groups and Congo experts are giving the thumps up to President Barack Obama's appointment of former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold as the new U.S. Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Feingold is ...

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Central Africa: U.S Names New Envoy to Africa's Great Lakes

Source: AllAfrica.com | Jun 19 2013, 4:56am CDT

Former Senator Russell Feingold has been named the U.S. special envoy to Africa's troubled Great Lakes region. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who announced the appointment Tuesday, said Feingold will work closely with U.N. e ...

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Dwindling Great Lakes squeeze shipping industry

Source: MSNBC | Jun 18 2013, 8:13pm CDT

In December, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron hit record lows, followed by Lake Superior which is the largest freshwater lake in the world. They all remain below their historical averages. NBC's Anne Thompson reports. By Amber Payne, Producer, NB ...

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Business tourism take a hit as Great Lakes evaporate

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Business, tourism take a hit as Great Lakes evaporate

Source: MSNBC | Jun 18 2013, 6:48pm CDT

>>> the great lakes contain one fifth of the fresh water supply in the surface of the earth . that may seem like a great deal of it, these days it's not enough for the level of commerce that those five truly grea ...

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Africa: Advocacy Groups, Congo Experts Applaud Appointment of Feingold as Great Lakes Envoy

Source: Humanitarian News | Jun 18 2013, 6:17pm CDT

[ENOUGH]Washington, DC -Nineteen advocacy groups and Congo experts applaud U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for his appointment of former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) as the new U.S. Special Envoy for the African Great Lakes region and t ...

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Human impact on Great Lakes mapped

Dec 19 2012, 4:53am CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Washington, Dec 19 (IANS) A comprehensive map shows that how human activities have degraded the North America's Great Lakes that hold 20 percent of the world's fresh water.

Washington, Dec 19 — A comprehensive map shows that how human activities have degraded the North America's Great Lakes that hold 20 percent of the world's fresh water.

Researchers from the University of Michigan and colleagues took three years to produce the most comprehensive map of the Great Lakes, highlighting stressors and the ecological importance of the five lakes located on the Canada-US border.

"Despite clear societal dependence on the Great Lakes, their condition continues to be degraded by numerous environmental stressors," said David Allan, professor of aquatic sciences at the Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment, who led the study.

The map gives authorities an unprecedented scientific foundation upon which to sustainably manage the Great Lakes, the researchers said, the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports.

The map represents the combined influence of nearly three dozen individual stressors and is incredibly detailed for a region spanning nearly 900 miles, showing impacts at the scale of half a mile, according to a Michigan statement.

Thirty-four stressors were examined, including coastal development, pollutants transported by rivers from agricultural and urban lands, fishing pressure, climate change, invasive species and toxic chemicals.

The environmental stress map was developed by a bi-national team of researchers from academia and environmental organisations known as the Great Lakes Environmental Assessment and Mapping (GLEAM) project.

The team drew upon the latest and best data from federal and state agencies as well as non-governmental organisations and individual researchers.

It surveyed 161 researchers and natural resource managers from across the basin. Combining the mapping of multiple stressors with their ranking by experts to assess ecosystem health is an emerging new approach.

"Current efforts to conserve, manage and restore the Great Lakes often take a piecemeal approach, targeting threats one by one," Allan said.

"We need to recognize that the Great Lakes are affected by multiple environmental stressors, and devise strategies based on a full reckoning."

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