Lake Champlain Int'l

Clean Water. Healthy Fish. Happy People. Conserving, restoring, and revitalizing Lake Champlain and its communities.

[Lake Champlain Int'l @Lake_Champlain]

Malletts Bay, Lake Champlain is in decline

[James 🦋 Ehlers @James_Ehlers]

For those with an interest in Malletts Bay, Lake Champlain, Vermont?

https://t.co/QNH86WyHJk

[James 🦋 Ehlers @James_Ehlers]

Crop-killing weeds advance across US farmland as chemicals lose effectiveness

#overshoot #easterisland

https://t.co/3K22XWLQZL

[James 🦋 Ehlers @James_Ehlers]

Industrial dairy is destroying Vermont watersheds

#overshoot #easterisland

[Lake Champlain Int'l @Lake_Champlain]

@VNRCorg Will you and your proxy VCV be supporting industrial power above 1500’ and wastewater and drinking water exemptions? Thank you in advance.

[Vermont State Parks @VTStateParks]

Snowy owl spotted! How much snow did the winter storm bring your way?

📷 A snow sculpture of an barred owl (note the striped chest and more apparent facial disk) - Lisa Zinn

[CyanoTRACKER @CyanoTracker]

The U.S. House approved legislation Thursday that would help scientists collaborate to forecast harmful algal blooms and require reports identifying at-risk habitats. https://t.co/DfXT0wVP5o

[Lake Champlain Int'l @Lake_Champlain]

@healthvermont https://t.co/NqDgtSwSWj

[Lake Champlain Int'l @Lake_Champlain]

@nesha_wallace ✌🏾

[Lake Champlain Int'l @Lake_Champlain]

Safe, clean water must a public priority!

[American Rivers @americanrivers]

“Water that’s piped into our home is still contaminated water. Washing dishes and bathing — that metal-laden water is still running through our pipes.” https://t.co/84KiFk3kAQ

[Lake Champlain Int'l @Lake_Champlain]

Microcystin at nearly 3x the safe standard for an untold number of days

[James 🦋 Ehlers @James_Ehlers]

Vermont Drinking Water Alert
https://t.co/GW776yiwFA

[Copernicus ECMWF @CopernicusECMWF]

📢August #SeaIce highlights from #C3S:

❄️#Arctic: Sea ice extent was 35% below the 1981-2020 average; the third lowest August extent in our record.
❄️#Antarctic: Overall sea ice extent was close to average.

More detail➡️https://t.co/Pg9m3k8Q3v

[Lake Champlain Int'l @Lake_Champlain]

@VTFishWildlife Great idea! Please be sure to warn people of possible cyanobacteria at locations like Sandbar.

[James 🦋 Ehlers @James_Ehlers]

The latest satellite imagery of the massive cyanobacteria outbreak (green) occurring on Lake Champlain.

Cyanobacteria can and do produce neurotoxins and liver toxins that can persist for days and weeks, even when the water appears clear.

[James 🦋 Ehlers @James_Ehlers]

Can someone from @healthvermont or @vtanr test the Winooski at the @GreenMtnPower Hydro One for cyanobacteria, please? Thank you.

#ThinkVT @winooskivt

[CyanoTRACKER @CyanoTracker]

On-going bloom in Lake Champlain as captured in recent #Sentinel2 scene.

[Lake Champlain Int'l @Lake_Champlain]

@CyanoTracker @LakeChamplainSG @CopernicusEU Thank you for your work

[James 🦋 Ehlers @James_Ehlers]

Rethinking wastewater risks and monitoring in light of the COVID-19 pandemic

"Survival time of SARS-CoVs in wastewater is sufficiently long for infective viruses to reach WWTPs and to be further disseminated by several transmission pathways. ...
https://t.co/fZpEbldBQk

[James 🦋 Ehlers @James_Ehlers]

.@VTStateParks Lake Carmi Beach water sample

If you think our public waters need more protection, not less, now would be the time to share your priorities with public officials.

If we don't, who will?

#cyanobacteria

[Lake Champlain Int'l @Lake_Champlain]

OUR BASIN OF RELATIONS, The Art and Science of Living with water is published. 

Lake Champlain eBook and coffee table book: a collection of fine photography and informed essays.

https://t.co/38OICg2cTy

[CyanoTRACKER @CyanoTracker]

The recent #Sentinel2 scene captured on-going bloom in northern part of Lake Champlain.