TOBERMORY Over the past 20 years quadrillions of invasive mussels have been sucking the life out of the Great Lakes. They’re trapping nutrients, the basic building blocks of life, on the lake bottom. Without nutrients, organisms of all kinds - from the tiniest plankton to the largest fish - are vanishing. In Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Ontario, vast offshore areas have become “biological deserts,” heralding one of the biggest changes to the Earth’s freshwaters in 10,000 years.
Descendants of the captain who perished when his the Africa disappeared hauling coal from the United States to Owen Sound 128 years ago have been offered a chance to visit the site of the recently discovered shipwreck.
Descendants of the captain who perished when his the Africa disappeared hauling coal from the United States to Owen Sound 128 years ago have been offered a chance to visit the site of the recently discovered shipwreck.