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There’s a New Plan and Funding to Clean Up the Muck Plaguing Lake St. Clair

After years of algae decomposing on the small lake’s shoreline, the Army Corps of Engineers has a remedy to stop the stink.

By K.R. Callaway

The south and west reaches of Lonesome Lake are visibly shallow in this July 2025 photo taken while descending from Jackass Pass. Long reputed to have quality issues related to human waste, the Shoshone National Forest lake is being examined for an E. coli impairment after regulators initially detected fecal bacteria levels several hundred times more than is believed to be safe. Credit: Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile

Wyoming’s Crowded Lonesome Lake Tops EPA’s National Survey for Fecal Contamination

By Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile

Climate Change Enables the Spread of a Dangerous Flesh-Eating Bacteria in US Coastal Waters, Study Says

By Jon Hurdle

Ice-fighting Bacteria Could Help California Crops Survive Frost

By Liza Gross

ARPA-E Bets on Disruptive Technology Synthesizing Fuel from Bacteria

By Mara MacKinnon

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