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Renewable energy officials throughout Wisconsin are forecasting grim financial and employment futures because of the status of the wind energy industry in the state. More...
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After two years, the roughly $10 million dollar water quality question that boiled over at a Sauk Village Board meeting last month is going to find a place on the November ballot. More...
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Wisconsin's Bois Brule River, known to most as simply the Brule, has long occupied a place of honor among American rivers. More...
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The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is one step closer to gaining control of land its ancestors once occupied on the end of Wisconsin Point in Superior. More...
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Northern Chautauqua County, N.Y. sits on Lake Erie, which is part of the largest supply of fresh water in the world. How to make the most efficient and long-term beneficial use of that water is something government officials have been looking at for the last few years. More...
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Two Lake Erie experts are sounding the alarm about Asian carp. The species has been added to the federal injurious wildlife list, making it illegal to import or transport Asian carp. More...
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Northern Chautauqua County, N.Y. sits on Lake Erie, which along with the other four Great Lakes, is part of the largest supply of fresh water in the world. More...
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Metro Beach Metropark, in Harrison Township, Mich. will be site of an ambitious, $1.5 million project to revive up to 500 acres of marshland that has nearly dried up due to development and invasive plant growth. More...
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The weakening of environmental protections continues apace in the Great Lakes region. More...
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A massive fish kill last month in the Milwaukee harbor has been linked to a deadly fish virus that was first discovered in Lake Michigan in 2007. More...
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Two Lake Erie experts are sounding the alarm about Asian Carp. The species has been added to the federal injurious wildlife list, making it illegal to import or transport Asian Carp. More...
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Residents in 36 Wisconsin counties will be able to dispose of unwanted drugs and help keep the Great Lakes cleaner just by using the postal system. More...
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State grants will help pay for spring cleaning along Lake Erie, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' Office of Coastal Management.Two offices in Erie County will get grants from almost $50,000 available to clean up the shoreline. More...
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The developers of a proposed wind farm just east of the Montreal River Harbour welcome the chance to engage the public in two open houses next week. More...
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The maintenance dredging of the North Traverse and Bcancour and Cap-Sant Traverse, with an estimated total annual volume of 70,000 cubic metres of sediments, is the most important undertaking in the St. Lawrence river between Montreal and l'Isle-aux-Coudres. More...
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The concentration of PCBs in walleye and sediment in Little Lake Butte des Morts has dropped significantly following the $92 million government-ordered cleanup of the lake. More...
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GLIN's April Site of the Month is the Michigan Water Stewardship Program, a partnership of organizations that provide educational assistance to Michigan's residents to identify and reduce contamination risks to water and other natural resources. More...
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Midwest Wind Energy says it is suspending development of two wind farms in Wisconsin, citing development opportunities in other states at a time when Wisconsin policy-makers are moving to restrict wind farm development. More...
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In four months of heightened inspections, Canadian customs officials have stopped three trucks attempting to enter the country from the United States carrying live Asian carp -- an invasive species feared may one day dominate the Great Lakes. More...
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When the United States Fish and Wildlife Service decided in March to ban the import and transport of bighead carp -- one of the infamous Asian carp -- under a century-old law called the Lacey Act, David Lodge had one reaction. "It's about time," he said. More...
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Nearly twenty miles off Milwaukee, a team of divers descends 300 feet into the darkness. The faint outline of a giant ship resting on its side rises out of the dark like a ghost --the L.R. Doty is frozen in time underneath the gentle waves. More...
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Last week, the first freighter of the year rumbled up the St. Lawrence River. That marked the 53rd season of the St. Lawrence Seaway, a man-made channel linking the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes. More...
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Today, as federal politicians fan out across the country to wage an election campaign, there is little appetite to reignite a debate on water exports, as was suggested by former prime minister Jean Chrtien last week. More...
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Fluffy piping plover chicks, resembling cotton balls with legs, once hatched on Presque Isle's beaches under the watchful eyes of their 6-inch-tall parents. But then more human adults, and their children, flocked to the peninsula for recreation. More...
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The spring dredging of the Muskegon, Mich. harbor will begin this week, with work extending well into April. More...