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Restore Our Water International (ROWI) has received positive response to having the United States government act on the advice of the International Joint Commission (IJC) on taking actions to curb dropping water levels in the Great Lakes. More...
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About 100 people attended an informational meeting by Waukesha Water Utility staff Thursday to sell Racine-area residents and officials on a proposal to ship water out of Lake Michigan through Oak Creek and send the used water back through the Root River. More...
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Trucks carrying highly-enriched liquid uranium could be rumbling through Niagara for the first time ever soon, and local officials may not even be aware there's nuclear waste passing on our local highways. More...
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Cargo shipments on the St. Lawrence Seaway are down 7 percent from a year ago, but one official predicts more activity in the final two months of the season. More...
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Shipments rose 16 percent at the Port of Indiana Burn Harbor in October, the sixth straight month tonnage has increased. Most of the increase for the month could be chalked up to steel and raw materials the mills need, said Rick Heimann, port director for the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor. More...
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Trucks carrying highly-enriched liquid uranium could be rumbling through Niagara (Ontario) for the first time ever soon, and local officials may not even be aware there's nuclear waste passing on their local highways. More...
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There seems to be no middle ground between extremes of opinions when discussing Waukesha's (Wisconsin) plan to discharge treated wastewater to the Root River as part of its proposed switch to a Lake Michigan water supply. More...
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A Grand Haven Township mother whose water safety efforts have become a life-saving mission after her son's drowning will share her story on television. More...
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The Port of Green Bay has seen some up and down numbers through the fall, and its overall tonnage for the season got a boost last month. More...
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Two scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have developed a technique to monitor ice cover on the Great Lakes, using satellites. More...
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The Ohio Lake Erie Phosphorus Task Force's report published Wednedsay has 20 recommendations. It calls on Ohio farmers to voluntarily adopt farming practices that can reduce phosphorus runoff from their fields. More...
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Nearly forty years ago, 29 crewmen perished Nov. 10, 1975 when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was lost in Lake Superior. A memorial event was held in their memory in River Rouge, Michigan. More...
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John Lavey, a land use planner at the Sonoran Institute, designed a map that divies up the country by its watersheds. The idea is to use water more efficiently while minimizing conflicts over its use. More...
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Trucks carrying highly-enriched liquid uranium could be rumbling through Niagara for the first time ever soon, and local officials may not even be aware there's nuclear waste passing on their local highways. More...
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Measuring progress toward the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative goals seems like a simple matter of counting, and yet EPA is said to be still "considering options for evaluating and reporting" on such a key initiative. More...
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Government biologists took water samples from Sturgeon Bay (Wisconsin) to search for the DNA of Asian carp in the hope of gaining a better understanding of whether the destructive fish could be lurking in these reaches of Lake Michigan. More...
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Sherri Mason set out on a research boat in 2012 to see if plastic might be polluting the Great Lakes. The research caused a group of mayors in Great Lakes Cities to approach the U.S. EPA recently about what the agency plans to do regarding the plastic pollution. More...
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It's time to stop treading water and take action to prevent the devastation of the fishing industry. Unfortunately what stands between the Great Lakes and the Asian carp is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a bureaucracy that prefers studies to shovels in the ground. More...
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The Battle of the St. Lawrence involved a number of submarine actions around the lower St. Lawrence River and the entire Gulf down as far as the Strait of Belle Isle. More...
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More extreme weather, like unpredictable springs and long summer droughts, is to blame for changes in grape production. Climate change can be good for some grape varieties, and not so good for others. More...
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The Lake Carriers' Association reported Tuesday that shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes totaled 6 million tons in October, an increase of 9.6 percent compared to October 2012. More...
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Canada's federal review panel wrapped up its public hearings on Ontario Power Generation's request to build an underground nuclear waste site on the coast of Lake Huron last week, but not before hearing from the feds on this side of the border. More...
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Climate change opens door to forest pests new to Great Lakes
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The mimosa webworm was nowhere to be found on honeylocust trees at Michigan State University 20 years ago. But within the past decade, warming temperatures made the East Lansing, Michigan campus an appealing home for this destructive bug. More... -
The George Gund Foundation approved a $2 million gift to The Trust for Public Land for a program to bolster park and trail access to the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie. More...
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Several environmental groups are disputing the City of Waukesha's need for Lake Michigan water in a direct challenge to the foundation of the city's request for a Great Lakes diversion. More...