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The law faculties at the University of Windsor and Detroit's Wayne State University are teaming up to offer students on both sides of the border North America's first program in transnational environmental law. More...
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The federal government is looking to cut money for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, but the impact of reduced funding is likely to be limited for Saginaw Bay right now. More...
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More than 1.5 million U.S. jobs are directly connected to the Great Lakes, generating $62 billion in wages annually, according to a new analysis by Michigan Sea Grant at U-M. The analysis, released today, is based on 2009 employment data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. More...
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A program designed to improve the restoration and management of Great Lakes fish communities is coming to Indiana this spring, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources said. More...
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Days after a plea to pull funding to operate the Chicago locks failed in the U.S. House, Rep. Dave Camp vowed to ask Congress to permanently separate the Chicago River from Lake Michigan. More...
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The Great Lakes sea lamprey control program might be one of the great conservation success stories of the past half-century, but now cuts are planned for the agency that is charged with killing the bloodsucking parasites. More...
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As director of the state Office of the Great Lakes, Patty Birkholz can't help but focus on the destructive threat of Asian carp. More...
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service plant database is an interactive tool that allows users to search for a plant species by scientific or common name, or by state(s). View plants for multiple states like those in the Great Lakes region. More...
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The days may be numbered for several Allegheny River navigation locks. Anticipating funding cuts, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is exploring plans to close five locks that are used by recreational boaters but have little commercial traffic. More...
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You may find out more than you want to about environmental activities in your area via the Environmental Protection Agency Enviromapper. This EPA map shows almost anything you want (or may not want) to know: from hazardous waste sites to the locations chemicals in use like ammonia. More...
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The construction permits are in and the financing is ready to go, but some of the Chicago area's biggest sources of toxic air pollution still might not be cleaned up anytime soon. More...
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As soon as the Ontario government announced it was halting development of offshore wind farms -- a high-profile part of its vaunted, nation-leading green-energy plan -- critics wrote off the surprise decision as pure politics. More...
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The free corn for the black ducks program at Round Cove will end this week. The object isn't for the state Department of Fish and Wildlife to fatten up the ducks for the dinner table, although they are hunted. This is a banding program to see what the ducks are up to in the winter. More...
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The days may be numbered for several Allegheny River navigation locks. Anticipating funding cuts, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is exploring plans to close five locks that are used by recreational boaters but have little commercial traffic. More...
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SD&G/Cornwall municipalities are responding to new economic and demographic realities by taking the appropriate steps to build local economies partially through culture. Creativity and culture are powerful drivers in building local economies and strengthening quality of life. More...
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A panel of scientists have unveiled new research and models demonstrating how climate change could increase exposure and risk of human illness originating from ocean, coastal and Great Lakes ecosystems. More...
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Chicago is in the midst of a mayoral election campaign and an issue that wouldn't normally garner much attention is right there with the budget, schools, city services and crime. More...
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U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., introduced a bipartisan bill this week designed to fund critical operations and maintenance of the nation's harbors, including significant needs in the Great Lakes System. More...
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The federal government's 2011 plan for dredging the Toledo shipping channel and once again dumping most of the river sediment back into Lake Erie's Maumee Bay area will be discussed at 6:30 p.m. March 3 in Toledo City Council chambers. More...
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The state Department of Environmental Conservation has scheduled three public meetings next month to discuss Lake Ontario fisheries. The annual "State of Lake Ontario" meetings will be held in Niagara, Monroe and Oswego counties. More...
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The Great Lakes Commission Semiannual Meeting and Great Lakes Days in Washington, D.C., are just around the corner, on Feb. 28 - Mar. 2. Register now! More...
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For the second time in a week, the U.S. Coast Guard is warning anyone who goes out onto Lake Erie or Northeast Ohio rivers that the warm weather has accelerated the ice melting, creating dangerous conditions. More...
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The public is clamoring for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to speed up its five-year study on how to permanently block Asian carp from migrating up the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and into Lake Michigan, but Army Corps officials say it's going to take time - at least another four years. More...
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Great Lakes advocacy groups say proposed federal budget cuts would damage efforts to deal with one of the region's biggest environmental problems -- sewage overflows. More...
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When the head of the Grand Valley State University alternative energy center asked for the city of Muskegon's help in establishing an offshore wind research buoy in Lake Michigan, there was no controversy. More...