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New York's strict new standards for keeping invasive species out of ships' ballast on the St. Lawrence Seaway took a hit in Congress, and probably won't get a second chance on Capitol Hill, a congressional source said Monday. More...

The National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB) tests student knowledge about marine and freshwater science, policy, and economic issues. The Great Lakes Bowl is based out of Ann Arbor, Mich., and is one of the 25 competing regions from around the country. The deadline to enter the 2012 Great Lakes NOSB is December 2, 2011. More...

36 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald and her entire crew of 29 men was lost in one of the worst storms in decades. To this day, no one knows why a 729-foot ore carrier could disappear so mysteriously into Lake Superior. A memorial service will be held at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum on Thurs., Nov. 10. More...

In the days since the landslide at Wisconsin's Oak Creek We Energies facility, people who live along Lake Michigan say they've seen debris and chemicals washing up on the lake shore. More...

The fish population in the Detroit River is a small fraction of what it was in the 19th century, when fisheries flourished and were considered among the most lucrative in the Great Lakes. More...

As urgency rises over need to halt the migration of invasive Asian carp into the Great Lakes, a new solution comes forward: Eat them. More...

As cleanup of last July's estimated 843,000-gallon Kalamazoo River oil spill continues, so does the investigation into its effect on turtles, fish, and the bugs they eat. More...

The Ludington, Mich., cross-lake ferry S.S. Badger may face a brighter future because of a congressional amendment passed Friday that would allow the Badger to continue operating as is for the life of the vessel. More...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced last week that Michigan state parks and recreation areas have won the 2011 National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) Gold Medal for the top state park system in the nation. More...

This map indicates the level of concern of hydrological risk at the GLMRIS identified locations. More...

East End Sewer Treatment Plant in Sault, Ont. targeted as source of elevated E. coli levels in St. Marys River More...

Funding for the $50.2-million project was divided between the federal, provincial and municipal governments. Two-thirds of the contribution was made through the Infrastructure Stimulus Fund (ISF). More...

Andrew Bramburger is looking forward to exploring the pockets of wetlands scattered throughout the Seaway Valley.Bramburger is the newest scientist to join the team at the St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Science, bringing his research on algae to the centre's collaborations. More...

The Ohio State University Climate Change Outreach Team presents Climate Change and Great Lakes Wetlands, a free webinar on how wetlands provide important ecosystem services, including those to mitigate climate change. The webinar takes place Tues., Nov. 8, and advance registration is required. More...

Decades-old coal ash hurled from the grounds of a Wisconsin power plant into Lake Michigan during a landslide this week probably doesn't pose a significant environmental risk, experts said Wednesday. More...

A group of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employees worked quickly this week to scoop up coho salmon at the Root River Steelhead Facility, siphon eggs and sperm and mix the two together in plastic buckets destined for a fish hatchery. More...

Government officials, researchers, environmental organizations and students from all over Michigan are convening at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti today to discuss the health of the Huron River. More...

Through the years, St. Clair County has gotten its share of criticism for failing to be a good water quality steward. Port Huron's sewer overflows into the St. Clair River were a leading source. But the city's sewer separation project has made progress in reducing those spills More...

The federal Environmental Protection Agency is set to issue regulations on ballast water release from ships by the end of this month. Collister Johnson Jr., administrator of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corp., said the U.S. Coast Guard will follow with its regulations soon after. He is hoping these new regulations will show New York state that its regulations are off base. More...

In the WVIZ/PBS program, Attack of the Alien Invaders, Dante Centuori, Director of Creative Productions at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio, traveled in and around Lake Erie visiting with scientists and government officials who are investigating Lake Erie's ecosystem, the challenges it has faced in the past, as well as those it may face in the future. More...

Sea birds were all the rage last week in Northeast Ohio. Lake Erie is connected to the East Coast via Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence Seaway, and sea birds migrating Eastward are programmed to follow this route in the fall. More...

Toronto Hydro's wind measuring efforts off the Scarborough Bluffs are going nowhere - for now. Councillors on the executive committee voted Tuesday to let hydro leave its more than $1 million anemometer - a fridge-size device that measures wind speed and direction - in Lake Ontario until the fall of 2012. More...

State environment regulators gave We Energies a pass in 2008 - exempting it from certain rules so that construction work could be done atop coal ash landfills on a bluff on the Lake Michigan shoreline at the utility's Oak Creek Power Plant, officials said Tuesday. More...

A plan by the Community Foundation of St. Clair County to rehabilitate and restore public access along the St. Clair River in Port Huron, Mich., was ranked first for possible funding by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for ecosystem restoration. More...

A large section of bluff collapsed Monday next to the We Energies Oak Creek Power Plant in Wisconsin, sending dirt, coal ash, and mud cascading into the shoreline next to Lake Michigan. More...