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The Great Lakes Ballast Water Working Group says in its 2012 Summary of Great Lakes Seaway Ballast Water Management report that once again 100 percent of ballast tanks entering the Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence Seaway received a ballast tank exam. More...
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The two dams on the Cuyahoga River in downtown Cuyahoga Falls, Oh., will be a memory by the end of July -- if all goes as scheduled. Then the river's healing will begin. More...
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The 2013 Great Lakes shipping season got under way Saturday when the tug and barge Prentiss Brown and St. Mary's Conquest left winter lay-up in Milwaukee, Wis., and sailed to Charlevoix, Mich. More...
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Could Waukesha, Wis., get federal funding to help build its pipeline to Oak Creek to purchase Lake Michigan water? Waukesha is outside of the Great Lakes Basin but is in a community within a county that straddles the Great Lakes Basin. More...
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Dredging is expensive. After a 3-foot drop in water levels on Lake St. Clair last summer, many marinas are ready to embark on an expensive reality this spring. More...
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March 7, 2013 is Great Lakes Day: an annual event hosted by the Great Lakes Commission and the Northeast-Midwest Institute to convey a unified message to Congress expressing the Great Lakes region's priorities for legislation and appropriations to protect our environment and support our economy. More...
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There is a great deal of community drama and anxiety in Ludington, Mich., home of the S.S. Badger, due to uncertainty about the future of the historic coal-fired Lake Michigan ferry. More...
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It took plenty of caring and some caution, but two eagles are once again free to roam the skies of Essex County, Ont. Once common along the shores of Lake Erie, bald eagles were almost eliminated from the region in the 1960s and '70s. More...
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Temperatures are rising. The water in the Great Lakes is dropping. Summers in Michigan are getting hotter. Winters are getting milder. So what does all this climate change mean to people in Michigan in the next 90 years? More...
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Michigan's water trails are quickly becoming one of the best places for tourism and outdoor adventure across the state. Water trails, much like more traditional walking or bike pathways, are pathways that lead to outdoor adventure and recreation. More...
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The 25 barrels recovered last summer from the depths of Lake Superior were dumped there 50 years ago under orders from the U.S. Army. Inside were scrapped cluster bombs -- a new weapon considered top-secret by U.S. officials who didn't want the design to fall into enemy hands at the height of the Cold War. More...
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The Great Lakes Boat Building School, located in the beautiful Les Cheneaux Islands of the Eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan, offers a highly rated educational program designed to teach quality wooden boat building skills and preserve craftsmanship. More...
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The Michigan Office of the Great Lakes announced that environmental cleanup operations have significantly reduced the level of pollutants in Muskegon Lake and White Lake. However, there are still fish advisories in place. More...
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In February, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron bounced back slightly from all-time record lows set in January, according to preliminary numbers released last week. However, boaters are still advised to be careful on the water. More...
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The $85 billion in federal budget cuts might affect environmental programs in Michigan, such as programs for clean water, air quality and toxic pollution, as well as programs for fish and wildlife protection. More...
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The Michigan Office of the Great Lakes has announced that environmental cleanup operations had significantly reduced the level of pollutants in Muskegon Lake and White Lake. More...
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Great Lakes Michigan and Huron in February bounced back slightly from all-time record lows set in January, according to preliminary numbers released last week. More...
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The $85 billion cuts out of the federal budget might affect environmental programs in Michigan. More...
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Restore Our Water International, an alliance of U.S. and Canadian groups, is demanding action to raise water levels in Lakes Michigan and Huron. More...
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The Great Lakes Ballast Water Working Group says that 100 percent of ships bound for the Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence Seaway from outside the 200-mile coastal zone last year received a ballast tank exam. More...
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Hundreds of ice balls, or boulders, are piled near Good Harbor Bay, which is part of the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore, near Traverse City, Michigan. More...
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Dr. Euan Reavie is internationally known as an expert in paleolimnology and his research is wide-ranging, starting as close to home as the White Iron chain of lakes and extending all the way to Lake Michigan. More...
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Those watching federal Great Lakes clean-up projects worry the sequester might curb clean-up. Andy Buchsbaum, from the National Wildlife Federation's Great Lakes office, discusses potential sequester impacts to Great Lakes environmental programs. More...
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Biologists with federal and state agencies, along with Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources biologists will be on hand for presentations at upcoming State of Lake Ontario meetings in New York. More...
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The owners of a stalled off-shore wind power project in Lake Ontario have filed for arbitration of their $475 million claim under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). More...