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While public attention has been riveted on the Asian carp's progress toward Lake Michigan, scientists are mapping out just what the next invasion might be and what, if anything, could be done to stop it. More...
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The discovery of thousands of dead shad on Chicago's Lake Michigan shore is a major kill, wildlife officials said Friday, Jan. 14. More...
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The city's Office of Environmental Sustainability is proposing the project to make a statement in support of renewable energy and to tap greener sources of electricity for the Port of Milwaukee's administration building. More...
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A bill proposed this week by Gov. Scott Walker to sidestep a Department of Natural Resources' review of a wetland at a Green Bay-area retail project is drawing sharp criticism from environmentalists while also signaling his willingness to use his powers to advance his economic agenda. More...
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In a move that could help clean up Chicago's chronically dirty air, the Obama administration on Thursday brokered a legal deal that cracks down on some of the biggest sources of pollution along the southern shore of Lake Michigan. More...
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Eight years after entering Ohio, the emerald ash borer continues its unchecked march across the state. More...
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The same week a commission raising funds to alter Chicago's waterway to prevent invasive species from entering the Great Lakes, Michigan's new attorney general vowed to continue the fight in court. More...
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A Minnesota lawsuit seeking to remove federal protections from wolves may be delayed several months. More...
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Following a five-year trend, the number of vessel passages during the 2010 commercial shipping season on the Saginaw River continued to decline. More...
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The Asian carp crisis lands in downtown Cleveland on Thursday. Not the voracious fish itself -- not yet. More...
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U.S. and Canadian environmental and conservation groups are calling on the federal government to speed up a study on the possibility of Asian Carp entering the Great Lakes. More...
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An invasive species of algae is threatening to disrupt the ecological balance in Michigan lakes and waterways. It's a form of seaweed called starry stonewort. More...
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A demand for road salt will keep Owen Sound's harbour empty of lake freighters through much of January. More...
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This past year was designated by the United Nations as "2010 International Year of Biodiversity" - a year with its focus for all nations collectively to take care of this planet we call home, Earth. Now, with that year behind us, what's next? More...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued recommendations Tuesday for cities on how to test for a contaminant in water that Milwaukee, Wis., officials said last week has been found in the city's water system. More...
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Another piece of the majestic Grand River has been preserved. The Nature Conservancy announced Monday that the City Mission donated its 58-acre Grand Valley Christian Center Camp along the state-designated wild and scenic river in Ashtabula County, Ohio. More...
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Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials told conservation groups and anglers last Saturday that fighting invasive species is the agency's biggest priority in 2011, next to solving budget problems. More...
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When Glenn Maxham of Duluth showed up at the Minnesota Sea Grant office earlier this month, he didn't know he was carrying "whale burps." That's what Sea Grant officials called two fibrous balls of natural debris and shards of plastic that he found in the shallows of Lake Superior along Duluth's Lakewalk. More...
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Every year, rangers have to warn people off the ice dunes at Presque Isle State Park on Lake Erie in Erie, Penn. The dues are formed by wave action and the freezing of wave spray splashed into air that's colder than the water. More...
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Officials in Grand Beach, Mich., have closed all public beaches because of extreme erosion from winter storms. More...
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The shores of the Great Lakes and their islands were once fringed with commercial fisheries like Leland's Fishtown, where fish were processed for the burgeoning Midwest. More...
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Over the past year it's been hard to miss the ongoing news reports of an imminent Asian carp invasion. Now there is an opportunity to help stop the carp happening in Buffalo. More...
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A rising global tide of shipping is finally buoying revenues at the Port of Montreal, but significant challenges remain for the inland facility - including competition from deep-water ports able to accommodate the world's ever-larger ships. More...
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Large hypoxic zones low in oxygen long have been thought to have negative influences on aquatic life, but a Purdue University study shows that while these so-called dead zones have an adverse affect, not all species are impacted equally. More...
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Officials in Grand Beach, Michigan have closed all public beaches because of extreme erosion from these winter storms. More...