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Great Lakes Environmental Pollution

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BYE BYE GREAT LAKES

I am Dr. Hannah Romanik from Chicago, Illinois. I am a scientist studying the topic of the Great Lakes’ health. Pollution, invasive species, and habitat loss are issues facing the Great Lakes and places around it.

Clearly, pollution is still a huge problem facing the Great Lakes ecosystem. Chemicals from agricultural uses get in the lakes. The fish digest the chemicals; we catch and eat the fish. Therefore, we have the toxins in our body and eventually die. Also, cleaning the toxins is costly and very hard to do. Additionally, the chemicals cause birth defects and mercury from coal and highly toxic metals are still in the lakes damaging the ecosystem.

Another really big issue in the Great Lakes is invasive species.
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