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A survey of 241 cities, villages and other jurisdictions along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River shows that coastal damage from climate change will cost at least $1.94 billion over the next five years, with shoreline communities having already spent $878 million over the past two years. These figures only represent a fraction of the true need as not all shoreline jurisdictions are reflected in this figure.
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Survey: Great Lakes, St. Lawrence communities to spend $2B combating coastal damages
$200k Available for Great Lakes Basin Projects
New York Sea Grant and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) have announced $200,000 is available for Great Lakes ecosystem-based management projects through the New York Great Lakes Basin Small Grants Program. Up to $25,000 is available for each project. » Continue Reading.
Oil Transport Symposium Proceedings Now Available
New York Sea Grant was among the nearly 130 federal, state and provincial governments; industry; NGOs; and academic entities that participated in the 2017 Crude Move Symposium addressing the economics, risks, and hazards of crude oil transport through such waters as the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River system and the Gulf of Mexico.
The 39-page proceedings and video recordings of the symposium are now available online. » Continue Reading.
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- From Brooklyn to Timbuctoo
- Five ideas for late-season ski trips
- The evidence is wild in ongoing wolf saga
- Essex County moves closer to creating land bank
- Paul Smith’s exercises 'zero-tolerance' toward hate speech
- After dual court losses, what's next for APA?
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- Paul Smith reveals data breach that potentially impacted 10,000 current, former student accounts
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