Invasive species, climate change threaten Great Lakes
New book presents long list of dangers but also offers hope
By
Cassie Martin
8:00am, March 7, 2017
Every summer, people flock to the Great Lakes to swim and fish in the seemingly infinite waters and hike along the idyllic shores. But an ominous undercurrent flows just out of sight. Below the water’s surface rages an environmental catastrophe 200 years in the making.
In The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, journalist Dan Egan describes how the lakes’ natural history gave way to an unnatural one. From the effects of global trade and urbanization to climate change, the book offers an exhaustive (and sometimes exhausting) account of the abuses the lakes have endured.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/invasive-species-climate-change-threaten-great-lakes?mode=topic&context=60
