Michigan has a pilot program to restore a large wetland area to reduce fertilizer runoff from getting into Lake Erie because it feeds toxic cyanobacterial blooms that spread in the western basin each year.

Worsening air quality and warmer, stormier weather in the Great Lakes region caused by climate change are threatening human healthMichigan medical students are pushing for curriculum changes to address these health threatsAs a result, more medical schools are teaching future doctors about climate change

This is the second half of a series on heat islands around the Great Lakes. Part one is on the human health cost. Part two is on the science behind combating the urban heat island effect, solutions to the complex problem, and the role the Great Lakes play.

Despite being on the Great Lakes, the cities of Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Windsor, and Toronto have all been labeled urban heat islands.

Floating solar panels are somewhat new in the U.S. In some places, the competition for land makes putting solar panel on plastic rafts feasible.

The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative has funneled billions of dollars into cleanups and habitat protection. A new audit finds sometimes environmental justice is overlooked.

In Canada, no rule or law prevents many unmonitored and invisible substances -or "contaminants of emerging concern"- from entering our water, including the Great Lakes.

Audubon Great Lakes members held an advocacy day for the first time in Michigan. Wetlands topped the agenda, but was just one item in a list to improve the environment.

The loss and degradation of wetlands has had a profound effect on many birds. There are efforts to restore them, but the rate of loss is greater.

The National Science Foundation has given a Marquette, Michigan company a grant to research whether some types of fungi can break down or otherwise destroy PFAS.