/news/tags/watershed Watershed en-US Copyright Fri, 22 Jul 2022 16:17:40 GMT /news/arts-culture/2022-07-22/blazing-paddles-event-to-bring-600-watercraft-back-to-the-cuyahoga-river The fourth annual event celebrates 50 years since passage of the Clean Water Act. Fri, 22 Jul 2022 16:17:40 GMT /news/arts-culture/2022-07-22/blazing-paddles-event-to-bring-600-watercraft-back-to-the-cuyahoga-river Kabir Bhatia /news/environment-energy/2019-12-31/watershed-environmental-activism-lives-on-50-years-after-the-river-burned This story was originally published on July 22, 2019.Fifty years ago a burning river mobilized a generation of environmental activism. Citizens pushed for… Tue, 31 Dec 2019 09:37:24 GMT /news/environment-energy/2019-12-31/watershed-environmental-activism-lives-on-50-years-after-the-river-burned Jeff St. Clair, Jennifer Conn /news/environment-energy/2019-07-15/watershed-how-a-photo-sparked-a-revolution When the Cuyahoga River caught fire 50 years ago it helped spark an environmental movement in America. However, there was little coverage at the time and… Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:43:01 GMT /news/environment-energy/2019-07-15/watershed-how-a-photo-sparked-a-revolution Mark Arehart /news/environment-energy/2019-07-08/watershed-sharing-the-cuyahoga Over the past 50 years, freight traffic on the lower Cuyahoga River has increasingly competed with smaller watercraft as the river has rebounded to become… Mon, 08 Jul 2019 09:17:03 GMT /news/environment-energy/2019-07-08/watershed-sharing-the-cuyahoga Kabir Bhatia /news/environment-energy/2019-07-02/watershed-meet-the-woman-tasked-with-promoting-and-protecting-lake-erie The Cuyahoga River and many other Northern Ohio streams and rivers are part of the Lake Erie Watershed, which encompasses 33 of Ohio's 88 counties, or… Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:50:00 GMT /news/environment-energy/2019-07-02/watershed-meet-the-woman-tasked-with-promoting-and-protecting-lake-erie Sarah Taylor /news/environment-energy/2019-07-01/watershed-how-lake-erie-became-the-walleye-capital In the early 1970s there was a cooperative effort between the United States and Canada to lower the amount of pollutants entering the Great Lakes. Around… Mon, 01 Jul 2019 09:50:00 GMT /news/environment-energy/2019-07-01/watershed-how-lake-erie-became-the-walleye-capital Sarah Taylor /news/environment-energy/2019-06-25/watershed-decades-of-dedication-cleaned-a-poisoned-ashtabula-river Rivers in northern Ohio have long been conduits of industry, linking onshore factories to Great Lakes shipping and beyond.This industrial legacy spurred… Tue, 25 Jun 2019 22:11:09 GMT /news/environment-energy/2019-06-25/watershed-decades-of-dedication-cleaned-a-poisoned-ashtabula-river Jeff St. Clair /news/environment-energy/2019-06-24/watershed-state-of-the-cuyahoga Fifty years ago, the Cuyahoga River caught on fire. It wasn’t the first time this had happened. And it really didn’t become a big deal nationally until… Mon, 24 Jun 2019 08:45:54 GMT /news/environment-energy/2019-06-24/watershed-state-of-the-cuyahoga Mark Arehart, Kabir Bhatia /news/community/2019-06-22/geology-professor-joseph-ortiz-talks-about-current-threats-to-lake-erie Trained in Aquatic Biology and Oceanography, Joseph Ortiz is a Professor of Geology at Kent State University. His research takes him all over the world as… Sat, 22 Jun 2019 11:01:00 GMT /news/community/2019-06-22/geology-professor-joseph-ortiz-talks-about-current-threats-to-lake-erie Mark Satola /news/environment-energy/2019-06-17/watershed-listeners-share-memories-of-the-burning-river Starting on June 24, WKSU will begin a series of reports looking at the state of our local waterways including the Cuyahoga, Ashtabula, and Black Rivers… Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:54:22 GMT /news/environment-energy/2019-06-17/watershed-listeners-share-memories-of-the-burning-river Sarah Taylor