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Local weather change threatens Michigan’s Fishtown and its historic shanties

Local weather change threatens Michigan’s Fishtown and its historic shanties

Hari Sreenivasan:

The realm has turn into a vacationer vacation spot with 12 small, family-owned companies that draw 300,000 vacationers, and their {dollars}, yearly from all around the world. Now Carlson’s and Fishtown are dealing with a brand new menace: the waters that made Fishtown doable within the first place. The Leland River is overflowing its boundaries Adjustments in atmospheric stress over a higher-than-normal Lake Michigan are additionally pushing extra water into that river and endangering Fishtown.

The area has skilled excessive excessive and low water occasions up to now, however this time it is completely different.

Lauren Fry is a Bodily Scientist with the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Nice Lakes Environmental Analysis Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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