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The plan calls for a rise in protected green space in the region from 12 per cent to 17 per cent. As well, land reserved for cultivation will increase by six per cent, reversing a habit of building on farmland that seemingly had been around forever. More...
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"We're open for business," Port Manager Dean Haen said Tuesday. "There's no ice I would suspect we'll be getting a ship sooner than later, and it points to a good year." The first vessel usually arrives in the port anywhere from March 15 to April 15, Haen said. More...
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Lake Superior State University and an international task force that monitors the St. Mary's River invite residents and visitors on both sides of the river to the 11th annual Environmental Summit on March 17 at LSSU's Walker Cisler Center. More...
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Questions were asked about the increasing evidence that salmon are eating gobies and are the salmon are starting to replace alewives in their diet. There's concern about the fishery. More...
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The Milwaukee-based Lake Express has made a concerted effort to place more focus on its connections to the Michigan side of its business. More...
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The objectives would serve to guide bi-national ecosystem research and management programs including reintroduction and restoration of native species, trout and salmon stocking programs, maintenance of predator-prey balance, and sea lamprey control. More...
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We generally frown upon interference by big government but must allow for an exception in this case. The EPA is right to request as much information from car ferry personnel as it needs to reach a reasonable conclusion in a case environmental and business groups are watching closely. More...
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A flood of opposition led Wilmette Park District commissioners to close the gate this week on their consideration of a fence that would have limited access to one of the last free Lake Michigan beaches along the North Shore. More...
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If you live in St. Clair or northern Macomb County and consider yourself a supporter of clean water, clean air and clean land, you are not being well served by your state representative. That's the word from the Michigan chapter of Sierra Club. More...
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Environmentalists say they hope a new study suggesting that the Great Lakes have lost 71 per cent of their ice cover over the last 40 years will move skeptics from steadfast "denial" of global warming to a robust scientific debate. More...
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At its board meeting last week, the authority approved a contract with DCG Corplan Consulting of West Orange, N.J., to develop an economic development plan for the authority at a cost not to exceed $19,750. More...
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The Michigan State University Planning and Zoning Initiative will bring people together to talk about progress in improving water quality of the Saginaw Bay watershed More...
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The 27-year-old musician is prepping for a four- to six-month excursion this summer not to circumnavigate Lake Superior -- that's too expected, Ledin said -- but rather to explore, research and record sounds. More...
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Wisconsin's state fish hatchery system is in the process of downsizing. Three hatcheries have already closed in the past six years and the Brule River facility looks to be next. More...
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Maritime traffic for the 2012 shipping season is set to get underway this week in the Port of Duluth-Superior with the anticipated departure of the Mesabi Miner in the early morning hours of Friday, March 16. More...
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The Twin Ports shipping season begins Friday, when the Mesabi Miner departs for the Presque Isle Power Plant in Michigan with about 55,000 tons of coal from Superior's Midwest Energy Terminal. More...
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Asian carp have gotten much bad publicity, as well they should, but so far no evidence of strain on the river's fish species has materialized. More...
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Last week, Ontario Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller warned the province isn't fully prepared for the changes of a warmer climate. In a review of Ontario's climate-change adaptation strategy, he said the government is off to a good start but hasn't set enough targets and timelines to deliver on it. More...
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A year after a March 11 earthquake and tsunami caused a major disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors, it's almost business as usual for the U.S. nuclear industry, which remains bullish about its prospects to expand and build more reactors. More...
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A group of environmental interest groups and those concerned about the economic development potential of alternative energy are having a wind energy panel discussion Tuesday evening at Herrick District Library. More...
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Legislation that would roll back environmental review for the Magnetation pellet plant proposed for Itasca County is set for a hearing in St. Paul this week -- a bill the company says must be passed for the plant to be built on the Iron Range. More...
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Two University of Minnesota Duluth graduates start their "Big Water Bike" May 1 in Duluth. It will take them about 5,300 miles around all five of the Great Lakes. More...
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Utilizing Asian carp as a food fish or fertilizer is a wise use of the invasive species. The importation and sale of live Asian carp, however, is illegal and puts the Great Lakes at risk. More...
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When it opens in May, the new 31st Street Harbor will have room for 1,000 boats, instantly increasing the number of slips and moorings available in Chicago by 20 percent. More...
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Gov. Pat Quinn joined U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill, today to finalize an agreement that will allow Illinois to receive federal funding to help restore and protect the Lake Michigan shoreline. More...