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Miller points out the long-term decline in Great Lakes water levels could reduce electricity generation by more than 1,100 megawatts. More...
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Wisconsin Republicans made another attempt Monday to persuade a key GOP state senator to vote for a contentious bill that would reform the state's iron mining laws, offering another set of revisions the lawmaker promptly rejected. More...
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Construction workers broke ground Monday on the $600,000 "Clayton Riverwalk 2" with a goal to build the Frink Park pavilion and a roughly 300-foot scenic trail along the St. Lawrence River for the 2012 summer tourist season. More...
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Ontario mining exploration activity went up significantly last year, a phenomena that is being keenly felt in Thunder Bay and the district. More...
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Students with an interest in the Great Lakes and the many intricate environmental and policy issues surrounding those precious bodies of water can apply for enrollment in a three-week course this summer that will take them across the lengthy Great Lakes system aboard the tall ship Brig Niagara. More...
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Coal exports from Midwest Energy Resources on Lake Superior in Wisconsin will more than quadruple in 2012, an executive at the terminal said Monday, signaling a strategic shift from western coal producers. More...
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Illinois Governor Patrick Quinn paid a quick visit to Premier Dalton McGuinty on Monday to talk water, how to stop the Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes and to get tips on hosting a G8 summit. More...
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Coal exports from Midwest Energy Resources on Lake Superior in Wisconsin will more than quadruple in 2012, an executive at the terminal said Monday, signaling a strategic shift from western coal producers. More...
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Constituents in this Niagara County town which hugs the Lake Ontario shoreline have expressed their concerns to Supervisor Joseph Jastrzemski about losing property along the lakeshore. More...
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This winter, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), in collaboration with study partners, published the Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS) White Paper: Non-Native Species of Concern and Dispersal Risk for the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study. The paper is available online, along with fact sheets related to specific species. More...
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A community group gathered by Muskegon's Save Our Shoreline is ready to take aggressive action to change the course of the redevelopment plans for the former Sappi paper mill property on Muskegon Lake. More...
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With 1,200 swans visiting the lake during peak periods, residents suffer an embarrassment of riches. And that is why local conservationists plan to kill them. More...
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Residents opposed to wind farm development along the Lake Huron shoreline, and against a wind turbine in Port Elgin sponsored by the Canadian Auto Workers, had planned the demonstration. But they had to cancel when Environment Canada issued a wind alert, warning of gusts exceeding 100 kilometres an hour. More...
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A committee of St. Lawrence County legislators recently asked the state Department of Environmental Conservation to train and supervise volunteers to control cormorants on Black Lake, which is a popular fishing destination. More...
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Gord Brown, the member of the Canadian Parliament who represents the area, is proposing changing the name of the St. Lawrence Islands National Park to the Thousand Islands National Park. More...
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NASA is building a satellite that measures snow and rain, called the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, to launch in 2014. From mid-January until this week, the NASA scientists flew 13 times over southern Ontario, taking advantage of snow near the Great Lakes. More...
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The ice boom on Lake Erie where it flows into the Niagara River is being removed much earlier than usual. More...
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A recent study conducted by Ohio Sea Grant and Bowling Green State University showed how bird watching along Ohio's Lake Erie coastline injects more than $26 million annually into the state's economy. More...
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Millions of visitors from Ontario and beyond visit Simcoe, Bruce and Grey counties every year and now members of a not-for-profit group set up by the provincial Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport are planning to draw even more visitors to the area. More...
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The annual World Ice and Snow Sailing Association (WISSA) Championship was held recently on Lake Michigan, pitting competitors against one another in a variety of wind-powered races. More...
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The mute swan population has grown to the peril of other waterfowl species and marsh vegetation. That's the conclusion of state and federal wildlife agencies across the country. Mute swans are also hindering Michigan's efforts to restore its native trumpeter swan population. More...
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An invasive plant called Japanese knotweed has been a popular landscape plant in Michigan for years. It's native to Japan, where it's one of the first plants that comes up after a volcanic eruption. So it can actually push through volcanic rock. The problem with that is... it can also break through the foundation of your home. More...
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On its 100th anniversary, the sinking of the Titanic continues to fascinate people around the world. But another shipwreck, almost equal in human tragedy, has slipped from popular memory, even though the vessel helped build modern Canada. More...
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The Maid of the Mist Steamboat Company, a 165-year-old Niagara Falls tour ship business, was recently passed over for a California-based cruise company, which was awarded a 30-year lease by the Niagara Parks Commission. More...
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the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has issued the 2012 fish consumption advisory. Four Ohio area water bodies' restrictions have been relaxed and 10 waterways have added stricter limits to fish consumption. More...