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Port of Cleveland plans Great Lakes-Europe container service
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The Port of Cleveland, Ohio, is in final negotiations with the Dutch company Spliethoff Group to run a global container service between the Great Lakes and Europe via the Saint Lawrence Seaway. More... -
GLIN's November Site of the Month is Teaching Great Lakes Science (greatlakeslessons.com). The website features a suite of lessons, activities and data sets all focused on various scientific aspects of the Great Lakes. All the lessons, activities, teacher tools and data sets are free. More...
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The Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners will consider amending a contract between the county and Enbridge Inc. to allow for remediation work on Morrow Lake at River Oaks County Park. More...
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The village board voted in agreement with Lake County, establishing a special taxing district that will allow for design and construction of the $41 million project. More...
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The Maid of The Mist has plucked its vessels from the waters and placed them on their newly-built dry dock on the former Schoellkopf Power Station site, a punctuation mark for the iconic attraction to a task that has been marred by controversy. More...
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More than a month after Wauconda was spurned by an agency that provides drinking water to part of Lake County, village officials still are trying to salvage a relationship with the group. More...
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Representatives from all levels of government met at the Lake Huron Water Treatment Plant Oct. 18 to celebrate the progress of the Huron Elgin London Clean Water Project (HELP). More...
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Four Michigan U.S. House members tell Canadian nuclear safety regulators they're concerned about plans to store radioactive waste near Lake Huron. More...
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For a very long time now lots of people have been warning that the Asian Carp menace is real and it will take some very drastic steps to prevent the voracious fish from entering the Great Lakes. More...
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When the ice melts in April, the Port of Cleveland plans to start its direct freight service to northern Europe. It's a first for a Great Lakes port - and the former Ohio congresswoman who now oversees the St. Lawrence Seaway says it's an important boon to the region. More...
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Great Lake ports such as Caseville, Port Austin, Harbor Beach and Port Hope will soon be working together for funding -- as an alternative to arguing for federal dollars when it comes time for harbor repairs. More...
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Jim Kennard and his partners decided to make one last sweep of Lake Ontario's bottom with their sonar equipment. The U.S. team's last-ditch effort earlier this month paid off with the discovery of the shipwreck of the Roberval, a 39-meter Canadian steamer that sank nearly a century ago, killing two of the vessel's nine crew members. More...
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This week, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission launched an engaging, open-access video database on its website. The videos, available streaming and in HD, chronicle sea lamprey in the wild, sea lamprey spawning, various aspects of the sea lamprey control program, and cutting edge fisheries research. More...
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Asian carp breeding near Great Lakes is bad news for Indiana
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This week, scientists confirmed for the first time that the invasive Asian carp is breeding in the Great Lakes watershed. A Purdue University professor says that's likely going to change the way Indiana deals with the growing Asian carp population in its waterways. More... -
A high-tech weather and water measuring device that's been a friend to western Lake Erie anglers during the summer was retired Monday for the coming winter season so the device can be inspected. More...
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Representatives from both the U.S. and Canada met Monday to discuss ways to improve the environmental conditions of the Detroit River and western Lake Erie corridor. More...
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Great Lakes ports such as Caseville, Port Austin, Harbor Beach and Port Hope in Michigan will soon be working together for funding -- as an alternative to arguing for federal dollars when it comes time for harbor repairs. More...
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A team of New York underwater explorers says it has found the wreck of a Canadian steamship that sank off the eastern shore of Lake Ontario nearly a century ago. More...
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A hightech weather and water measuring device that's been a friend to western Lake Erie anglers during this summer was retired Monday for the coming winter season so it could be inspected. More...
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Representatives from both sides of the border met Monday to discuss ways to improve the environmental conditions of the Detroit River-western Lake Erie corridor. More...
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Prior to the St. Lawrence Seaway project, communities formed up and down the river. When the Seaway project concluded, large swaths of land, the land that was not flooded, was barred from the residents. More...
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USGS has determined grass carp, a species of Asian carp, are naturally reproducing within the Lake Erie basin. Grass carp do not present the same ecological risk to Michigan's waters as bighead carp or silver carp, although they are a species of concern because they feed on aquatic plants and can significantly alter habitat. More...
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The Great Lakes Historical Society's 160-year-old Kelleys Island lifesaving boat is the oldest Great Lakes boat known to exist in its original construction, but at the society's old museum in Vermilion, Ohio, it was just too big to display. More...
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In forests near the Great Lakes, earthworms are alien invaders. No earthworms are native to North America's northern forests (massive ice age glaciers kept the land worm-free). More...
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Lake Michigan water will be more expensive in Mokena and other southwest suburbs as a major upgrade to the water delivery system is undertaken, but the supply will be a lot more available, a village official told the Village Board Monday. More...