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Climate change is expected to bring more severe weather, increased crop yields and a longer Great Lakes shipping season to Illinois and the Midwest, the White House said Tuesday in its report on global warming. More...
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The North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota offers plenty of outdoor activities and historical sites. More...
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After an unseasonably cold April, no one will be surprised to find the Great Lakes saw its greatest April ice cover since record keeping began in 1973. More...
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President Barack Obama has chosen Clarkson University President Anthony G. Collins to serve on the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp.'s five-member advisory board. More...
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The level of Lake Superior keeps rising, and it started this month 2 inches above the long-term normal and 14 inches above the level at this time last year. More...
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Andy Buchsbaum is a co-winner in the Individual category of the Detroit Free Press 2014 Michigan Green Leaders. He won for helping to secure $1.6 billion over 4 years in federal funding to improve the Great Lakes. More...
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Ice still covers over 20 percent of the Great Lakes surface, following a winter that nearly saw records set for the total amount of ice coverage. George Leshkevich of the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory thinks the ice coverage could have a variety of impacts. More...
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Taken as a whole, the economy of the eight Great Lakes states and the two Canadian Great Lakes provinces represents the fourth-largest economy in the world, behind only the United States, China and Japan. More...
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Years of planning and marketing for Hornblower Cruises will take hold in less than two weeks with its three Niagara Falls tour boats officially hit the lower Niagara River and begin carrying poncho-wearing tourists to the base of the waterfalls. More...
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A multinational lineup of biologists from Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario are working to better understand walleye by inserting acoustic transmitters into the fish. More...
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The process that U.S. Customs and Border Protection uses to know that foreigners have arrived in the Cleveland area via Lake Eric is raising security concerns. More...
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The study gave Sheboygan County the lowest grade in the state. The county had the 25th worst ozone pollution in the country. More...
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President Barack Obama's proposed budget for fiscal year 2015 jettisons $25 million from the initiative's current funding level of $300 million. It is the kind short-sighted, nickel-and-dime cut that will slow the progress in healing the fragile Great Lakes. More...
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It's spring, and the heavy snowmelt and rain is good news for farmers and scientists who have been worried about drought the last few years. But all that water has other consequences for the Great Lakes. More...
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The frigid winter and cool spring have hurt companies like Cliffs Natural Resources Inc and United States Steel Corp, and also hampered efforts to clear an unprecedented buildup of grain and oilseeds in Western Canada. More...
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Great Lakes Commission Policy Director Matt Doss discussed the Asian carp and the health of the Great Lakes during a forum sponsored by the West Michigan Shoreline Regional Development Commission. More...
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Ohio and Michigan both offer "free fishing days" -- a period when you don't need a license to fish the lake, the river, the reservoir or the pond. In this sales pitch, there's no bait and switch. It's bait and catch, repeatedly. More...
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Ron Bruch, a 37-year veteran of the Department of Natural Resources, has been named fisheries director for the agency. More...
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An ambitious plan to sell the former Port of Buffalo complex on the outer harbor to a Canadian furniture manufacturer - and create 250 new jobs - is dead. More...
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Last July, a six-year-old boy was almost killed when a collapsing hole at Mount Baldy buried him in sand. Since then, two more holes and some depressions have been found. More...
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The refinery's spill of up to 1,638 gallons of crude oil into Lake Michigan is not expected to result in any significant fallout for the company, Dudley said. More...
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Patty Birkholz is Director of the Michigan League of Conservation Voters. She says working together is good. More...
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Sales from specialized license plates in Ohio are resulting in $60,000 in grants to help clean up the state's only Great Lake. More...
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With a $110,000 grant from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Sea Grant will continue its 20-year effort to avert drownings and near-drownings, with a particular focus on Lake Michigan. More...
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The Council of Great Lakes Governors and The Paulson Institute, based at the University of Chicago, Ill., will try to exploit growing interest in China and other emerging economies in making "direct investments" in advanced nations More...