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Four times in the last seven years, migrating waterfowl in the Great Lakes basin, especially common loons, have experienced massive die offs during their fall migrations. These anomalies, if unchecked, can have dangerous repercussions for the survival of Michigan loons into the next decade. More...
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Five months after divers searched a remote section of Lake Michigan for a mysterious 17th century ship and retrieved a wooden slab the group leader believes is part of the vessel, it's still uncertain whether they are on the right track. More...
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More than 200 people packed into the Harbor Beach Community Theatre on Sunday afternoon to receive a walk through some local history. More...
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Just how high should Lake Ontario's water levels be? It's an emotional debate raging among those who live on and use the lake. More...
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Severe storms from last Sunday with winds of 60-75mph winds left beautiful sand sculpture in its wake More...
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Property owners along waterways in the north country of New York are expected to see changes in flood maps, availability and cost of insurance as FEMA works with NY Dept. of Environmental Conservation to collect adequate data More...
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Severe storms from last Sunday with winds of 60-75mph winds left beautiful sand sculpture in its wake More...
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The 30 year, up to seven foot range of water levels in Lake Ontario was changed with the construction in the 1950s of the Moses-Saunders Power Dam on the St. Lawrence River More...
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Muskegon, Michigan jumped the gun by 26 years when it staged a 1933 parade celebrating its new port facilities and the expected construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Politics delayed completion of the Seaway until 1959, long after Muskegon's port facilities were outdated. More...
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Oil companies want Tar sands oil from Alberta and natural gas from North Dakota to get to the world market and the industry still is hoping that flow of fuel might fill barges in the Duluth-Superior harbor and journey across Lake Superior. More...
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The Ohio Senate approved an amendment last week that strives to end open-lake dumping of dredged materials in Lake Erie. The amendment takes $1.6 million of existing state money and puts it toward conservation practices in counties along Lake Erie's Western Basin. More...
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New York Attorney General announced Friday that ExxonMobil Oil Corporation has agreed to pay $8.05 million to reimburse the New York Environmental Protection and Spill Compensation Fund for cleaning up an oil spill decades ago. More...
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Waterfowl continued to be a main highlight in Ottawa this past week, including King Eider, American White Pelican, Ross's Gull as some of the highlights. More...
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A second piece of the former Toledo Coke Co. site in East Toledo could soon be leased to an Illinois-based petroleum distributor. The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority board of directors Thursday approved leasing two Front Street parcels to Seneca Petroleum Inc. More...
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he board of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority approved an agreement with a Dutch shipping giant that will commence an era of cargo runs between Cleveland and northern Europe. The Cleveland-Europe Express will become the first regularly scheduled container service on the Great Lakes. More...
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U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA-05), chair of the bipartisan Invasive Species Caucus, hosted a caucus hearing in Washington, DC about the threat invasive species pose to local budgets, agriculture, infrastructure and the environment across California's Fifth Congressional District and other communities across the country. More...
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Waukesha is asking for permission to divert 10.1 million gallons daily from the lake to replace current supplies, and the city has set 16.7 MGD as a maximum. These numbers represent an expanded service area -- thousands of residential and business customers not already hooked up to the Waukesha system. More...
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For 14 years, water levels in Lake Superior, the world's largest freshwater lake, have remained below their long-term average, the longest stretch of below-average levels in recorded history. After more than a decade of falling water levels, Lake Superior is on the upswing. More...
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There are cliques of fishermen who hold the secrets to their bosoms, and God help us if one of us infidels stumbles upon sections of the forbidden territories. More...
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U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA-05), chair of the bipartisan Invasive Species Caucus, hosted a caucus hearing in Washington, DC about the threat invasive species pose to local budgets, agriculture, infrastructure and the environment across California's Fifth Congressional District and other communities across the country. More...
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The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality will be presenting a webinar on the Clean Michigan Initiative (CMI) Water Quality Monitoring Grant Program on Dec. 10. Also, MDEQ will present a webinar on Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control and Construction Storm Water NPDES Permit Programs on Dec. 19. More...
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The Northern Michigan Dive Center, NMDC, in Cheboygan, has a new dive boat, the "Blue Water," which will significantly expand its ability to take larger charters to local dive sites in the Straits of Mackinac and Hammond Bay. More...
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Abundant rain and snowfall have given the Great Lakes a boost this year, but it's too early to declare an end to slumping water levels that have plagued the inland seas since the late 1990s and made life miserable for cargo shippers and marina operators, federal scientists said Wednesday. More...
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The Alliance for the Great Lakes warned in a new report against increased shipment of petroleum products on the Great Lakes, particularly a plan to ship oil out of Superior, Wis. More...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded four grants totaling over $3.6 million for projects designed to reduce exposure to mercury and other toxins for people eating Great Lakes fish. More...