Twenty-one universities and institutions in the United States and Canada are developing plans for long-term research projects to help protect and restore the Great Lakes, project officials announced Monday. The collaboration will begin with papers describing factors that have affected the lakes over the last 50 years and those expected to have an effect in the next 50 years, such as invasive species and climate change. Wayne State University is among the U.S. institutions providing funding for the research.

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