Editorial: Overfishing Bluefin Tuna

The Bluefin Brigade was founded by the Center for Biological Diversity on November 30, 2010, to reduce consumer demand for imperiled bluefin tuna — and just a week later, more than 20,000 people had joined us. Please sign our pledge today not to eat bluefin tuna and to boycott restaurants that advertise it on their menu. Then read our FAQ to get more informed, download our Bluefin Boycott poster and flier to spread the word and sign up for future alerts about how you can help save species.

Top 10 Frightening Facts About Lake Erie for 2010

The very real and very scary problems facing Lake Erie are not going anywhere. Agricultural runoff, sloppy development, and invasive species are all contributing to a lake that is filled with toxic chemicals and water that is at times too dangerous to swim in or drink from. This is even more terrifying when you consider that Lake Erie generates nine of the fifteen billion dollars every year in Great Lakes’ annual tourism industry.

Expert Studies Ghostwritten by Drug Company

The documents—some of which date back to late 1990s—were recently unsealed in litigation over a GlaxoSmithKline product. We saw them after they were attached to a letter released this week by a nonprofit watchdog group urging the National Institutes of Health to crack down on ghostwriting in medical academia. The documents and the letter by Project on Government Oversight together outline several examples of how a major drug company contributed to the funding, writing and approval of material published in medical journals and elsewhere.

15 Organizations Lobby State Legislators About Lake Erie Algal Blooms

In a letter addressed to all those holding office for the Ohio Legislature 15 separate organizations have come together to provide solutions for Lake Erie Algal Blooms. In our effort to follow how Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Funding [...]

Electronic Health Systems Carry Libel Risk

By Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz Huffington Post Investigative Fund One day in March 2009, hospital workers misread small print on a computer screen, causing them to dispense 10 times the prescribed dose of a drug. Result: The [...]

FISHING INDUSTRY: Scientists Claim Salmon Farming Kills Wild Salmon

For decades, Fish Farms have moored open nets and pens from facility to estuary assuring consumers of their safety and inherent environmental protection. CleanFish, a company focused on buying sustainably-farmed fish declares on its website; “We believe that [...]

Cleveland International Film Festival: Bananas!*

CLEVELAND, OH – “Bananas!*”, a documentary from the Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten, was shown at the 34th Cleveland International Film Festival (March 18-28) in a record breaking attendance, and featured the ‘David and Goliath’ story of Nicaraguan banana [...]

Lake Erie Mercury Deposits

by The Erie Wire ERIE COUNTY, OH – The Great Lakes Initiative is finding new life as the Environmental Protection Agency continues to hold hearings on the issuance of variance permits that will limit the monthly discharge of [...]

Healthcare: Will Cleveland Clinic Be A Digital Model For Hospitals?

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VIDEO: How the Cleveland Clinic Went Digital By Emma Schwartz, Lagan Sebert and Sabrina Sieck Published by Huffington Post Investigative Fund & Disseminated by The Erie Wire 2:05 pm | 1 Dec 2009 CLEVELAND, OH - The Cleveland Clinic [...]