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Staying competitive in the global wind industry is the focus of the "Making It Here" conference in Cleveland this week sponsored by the Great Lakes Wind Network. More...
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After nearly a decade of decline, the Lake Erie watersnake is making a comeback. It's been listed as threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service but could be removed from the watch list soon. More...
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A series of short documentaries about invasive species are being funded through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), a combined effort of federal agencies focused on cleaning, protecting and restoring the Great Lakes. More...
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Once, Muskegon Lake was home to at least a dozen commercial fishermen -- many of them working as families. Now, only two local families remain in the business. More...
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Researchers from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will climb aboard small boats and head out later this month searching for larval sea lampreys, an invasive species that biologists say kill Ohio's native fish and are increasing in number in Lake Erie. More...
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The Coastal Zone 2011 conference takes place in Chicago next week. If you can't attend and still want to hear the latest from experts and colleagues, you can watch selected sessions online via webinar. Check out the webinar list and sign up! More...
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Capstone Turbine Corporation announced today that the City of Sheboygan, Wisconsin received a prestigious award from the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative (GLSLCI) for nearing self-sufficiency at its wastewater treatment plant using Capstone microturbines. More...
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Nationally-recognized local surfer, Blake Meisinger (14), will share Aloha on Malibu waves after creating a following in the Great Lakes. More...
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Wisconsin is testing more fish from Lake Michigan for viral hemorrhagic septicemia, or VHS, a disease that can cause large fish kills. More...
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The rest of the states and provinces in the Great Lakes Basin have too much to lose if Ohio treats Lake Erie and its tributaries as the state's personal asset for unilateral siphoning. More...
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An increasing number of environmentalists, consumer groups, and scientists are seriously testing a novel solution to control aquatic invasive species: they want Americans to step up to their plates and start eating invasive critters in large numbers. More...
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This year's Great Lakes Week in Detroit, MI may actually become a "precedent setting mega-event," but only if host organizations work to engage the region's premiers, governors, and legislators in an economic and environmental race to the top. More...
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Even relatively experienced kayakers can make decisions that result in problems requiring rescue efforts. More...
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About 150 construction workers will begin building the first of 133 wind turbines at the new Invenergy wind farm in the northeast corner of Gratiot County, west of Saginaw. More...
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Once a staple of sport and commercial fisheries in communities from Kenosha to Manitowoc, perch numbers have dwindled to modern-era lows, according to recent estimates. More...
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A pair of incidents in which a New York boater was fined for fishing on Canadian waters has drawn concern from locals. More...
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There are signs that the fish, wildlife and birds that were extirpated -- locally extinct -- can return to make their home in and near the lake's waters. More...
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An encouraging sign of a new awareness and public awakening about the critical needs of the marine environment has been the recent introduction by Senators Olympia Snowe and Sheldon Whitehouse of The National Endowment for the Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes Act. More...
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Cayuga County, NY expects to share in $245,000 in federal money to help prevent the spread of invasive species among the Finger Lakes. More...
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An encouraging sign of a new awareness and public awakening about the critical needs of the marine environment has been the recent introduction by Senators Olympia Snowe and Sheldon Whitehouse of The National Endowment for the Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes Act. More...
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Only one in four make it. But despite those odds -- and the giant freighters, the chilling water, the rolling waves and the blood-sucking lamprey eels -- Greg Willoughby hopes to become the first Londoner to swim across Lake Ontario. More...
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For more than a half-century tourism has been big business around the Great Lakes. For many small towns in the north, the entire economy can depend on visitors coming for two months out of the year. More...
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Cayuga County expects to share in $245,000 in federal money to help prevent the spread of invasive species among the Finger Lakes. More...
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Last week, an article published in the Journal of Great Lakes Research urged Congress to approve pending legislation ordering the Army Corps of Engineers to speed up a study of closing the Chicago Sanitary and Ship canal which connects the Mississippi River with the Great Lakes. More...
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Thousands of dead fish are washing up on the shores of Lake Michigan. Experts said small, shiny fishes, called alewives, have been dying off and showing up on beaches around Lake Michigan in recent weeks. More...