Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology studying the concentration of plastics in the Great Lakes estimate that some 10,000 metric tons of the stuff enters the lakes every year from the U.S. and Canada. The RIT School of Mathematical Sciences decided to track how those plastic items flow through the lakes and where […]
The International Joint Commission that regulates the Great Lakes is moving forward with the controversial Plan 2014. Commissioners of the joint U.S. and Canadian panel signed an updated order of approval for regulation of water levels and flows in Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. Plan 2014 is intended to provide a more natural […]
The Air Force has told the Buffalo News that operations from the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station won’t be affected by Apex Energy’s planned wind turbine farms in Orleans and Niagara Counties. Apex is looking at two different generating complexes using wind turbines more than 600 feet tall, spun by the winds coming off Lake […]