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Six additional giant windmills will start sprouting from a brownfield along Lake Erie, possibly within the next few weeks, and they are expected to produce even more renewable energy from the toxic former Bethlehem Steel property by early 2012. More...

The discovery of zebra mussels in Conneaut Lake was a surprise in just one way: It took 23 years for them to get there. More...

New standards governing the cleaning of ballast water in ocean-going freighters, about to be adopted by the U.S. Coast Guard, should help prevent release of non-native species into the Great Lakes and other threatened U.S. waters. More...

There was a time when the Great Lakes fishery was a flourishing affair. However, issues like invasive species, habitat loss, and pollution, among others, have resulted in an ever-shifting environmental -- and economic -- dynamic. More...

The blooms are back on Lake Erie, and are just as destructive as in the 1960s. An overload of nutrients was the culprit a half-century ago, and it is again, but from a different source. More...

Federal officials announced Friday that they will begin intensive monitoring of waterways near Lake Michigan next week after genetic material from the invasive Asian carp showed up in a third consecutive round of testing. More...

Two Michigan State University journalism graduates are turning their love for the outdoors into a newsworthy, informative past time devoted to Michigan's rivers and streams. More...

GLIN's Site of the Month for August is the Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC) Multimedia Zone. GLFC is making photos available to the public for noncommercial, educational purposes, free for use. Currently, the database contains hundreds of high resolution images of sea lamprey, various species of fish, scenic locations, and people living, working and recreating throughout the Great Lakes region. More...

The Healing Our Waters - Great Lakes Coalition will join together on the shores of the Detroit River to celebrate successes and develop new strategies to achieve Great Lakes restoration goals in 2012 and beyond. The conference takes place Oct. 12-14, as part of Great Lakes Week 2011. More...

The 22nd Biennial Trans Superior Yacht Race will be held this weekend. The start will be in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., on August 6th, 2011 and the finish will be in Duluth, Minn., covering 326 nautical miles. More...

The 2011 Great Lakes Beach Association Conference will be held Sept. 26-28 in conjunction with the biennial State of Lake Michigan Conference in Michigan City, Indiana. The conference features workshops and seminars on predictive tools, Beach 101, sanitary surveys, GLRI reporting, and more. More...

It's all part of the job for some Michigan State Police troopers -- writing tickets, investigating crimes and combating loot-stealing shipwreck pirates. Seventeen Michigan troopers are officers on the road and also divers in the water as part of the department's Underwater Recovery Unit. More...

Temperatures are rising and lake levels are lowering. Environmentalists are concerned that these factors could wipe out the "dunes" part of Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes in particular, and other special areas of the Great Lakes region's national parks in general. More...

The first-ever "Asian Carp Summit," to be held in Michigan this September, represents the first time Michigan tourism business and outdoor recreation groups have ever collaborated on an issue of common concern. More...

One year ago, a pipeline owned by Enbridge Energy broke. Thousands of gallons of tar sands oil polluted Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. It was the largest inland oil spill in Midwest history... but we still don't know exactly what it will mean for life around the river. More...

Under the Waukesha Diversion Application to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the City of Waukesha and several other Waukesha County communities would draw an average of 10.9 million gallons of water per day from the Milwaukee system, use it, treat it and return it to Lake Michigan via a pipeline. More...

Last weekend's deluge quickly saturated aging sewers in Chicago and soon overwhelmed the Deep Tunnel, a cavernous $3 billion backup system built to prevent flooding and protect Lake Michigan, the Chicago River and suburban waterways from water pollution. More...

With temperatures rising and lake levels lowering, environmentalists say there's reason to be worried about the future of national parks. More...

The potential trouble lurking in the Chicago River system is bigger than just the giant Asian carp, according to a new report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. More...

It was the largest inland oil spill in Midwest history... but we still don't know exactly what it will mean for life around the river. More...

DNR's second hearing on Lake Michigan water diversion proposal resonates to a different pitch downstream. More...

Chicago's Deep Tunnel was billed as an engineering marvel that would "bottle rainstorms," but one of the nation's most expensive public works projects was no match for the biggest rainstorm in the city's recorded history. More...

The City of Waukesha's request to buy Lake Michigan water in the future - and build one pipeline to carry the water west to Waukesha and a second pipeline to return treated wastewater to the lake - gained support of two labor unions at a public hearing Tuesday. More...

A sip of water in Bay County recently may taste a little bit different and not very pleasant. The musty or dirty taste coming from tap water at local homes or a restaurants is thanks to a larger than normal bloom of blue-green algae in the Saginaw Bay - the source for most of the county's drinking water. More...

Winnetka is seeking at least $38,000 from a resident whose contractor ruptured an underground heating oil tank, sending the contaminant into Lake Michigan through the village's storm sewer and causing two beaches to close. More...