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Under Michigan Gov.-elect Snyder's plan, he'll split up the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Quality, which were combined by Gov. Jennifer Granholm in January. More...
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With surprising speed, and with the help of ample public incentives, a solar energy manufacturing center has emerged in the upper Midwest that is helping to supply the world's growing demand for clean power. More...
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In the lower reaches of the Hennepin Canal, the invasive, filter-feeding, fast-growing fish have found their way upstream past locks 1 and 2 and they have become abundant in the pool between the dam at Lock 2 and the dam for Lock 3. More...
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Indiana Dunes' missing link: A partner to help leverage federal funding. More...
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A Canadian company wants to open a copper mine near Lake Superior in 2013. Orvana Minerals Corporation recently signed a 30 year lease for 566 acres near the Wisconsin border in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. More...
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The Sierra Club presents a list of ideas and suggestions on how to make your holidays a little "greener" this year, such as making your own wrapping paper, using energy-saving holiday lights and enjoying locally grown foods. More...
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Once dubbed "The Most Sustainable City in Canada," Quèbec City has undertaken numerous green initiatives that have helped put the French-speaking city on the map as a historic and eco-friendly destination. More...
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An intergovernmental panel appears to be inching toward proposing yet another new plan for regulating water levels in Lake Ontario. More...
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More than three years after sparking an uproar by issuing BP a permit allowing it to discharge more pollution from its Whiting refinery, Indiana is still issuing permits under the same problematic set of rules that played a role in that 2007 controversy. More...
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The hunt is on in the upper reaches of Lake Michigan to count what's believed to be thousands of bird carcasses that have washed ashore this fall -- a staggering toll blamed on the disruptive powers of invasive species that have taken root in the Great Lakes. More...
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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment's Office of the Great Lakes has shared online the presentations and workshop materials from the recent Michigan Asian Carp Prevention Workshop, which took place Nov. 22. More...
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The key is aligning demand with destinations, which means fewer Friday night trips to Cleveland. Last year, the ferry company joined the Lorain Port Authority in buying a $1.7 million ferry -- most of it with federal stimulus dollars -- and launching a new service out of the Black River Landing. More...
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The greatest increases were in the mid- to high- latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, in a pattern consistent with changes associated with global warming, said Simon Hook, a scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. More...
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The cleanup of a popular but algae-fouled Ohio lake has angered some Indiana residents who argue a federally backed effort to truck livestock waste across state lines is only moving the problem to their region. More...
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Officials said the release happened between Monday night and Tuesday morning following a 1.75-inch rainfall that caused four retention basins to overflow. More...
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Slabtown residents want to reclaim a beach lost to vegetation and debris, but a local environmental group isn't on board with the idea. More...
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A Connecticut-based Coast Guard cutter is scheduled to deploy Monday to the Great Lakes to assist with icebreaking this winter, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. More...
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The birds' populations are so massive in some areas that biologists say they are harming ecosystems and pushing other animals and plants out. This has prompted Ohio and Ontario to send sharpshooters to thin out the populations on Lake Erie. More...
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Ontario's long-term energy plan, released Tuesday, calls for a re-investment by the government and the private sector to build two new nuclear reactors at Darlington and refurbish 10 older units. More...
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The Conservancy has had its eye on the 358-acre island for ten years because it is a key piece of the Lake Superior and St. Louis River ecosystems. More...
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Ontario's long-term energy plan, released Tuesday, calls for a re-investment by the government and the private sector to build two new nuclear reactors at Darlington and refurbish 10 older units. More...
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WOODSTOCK -- Opponents of wind turbines say there are lots of misconceptions about wind farms. The first mistake is calling them wind farms. More...
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Ontario's long-term energy plan, released Tuesday, calls for a re-investment by the government and the private sector to build two new nuclear reactors at Darlington and refurbish 10 older units. More...
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Despite a reduction in funding from Albany for land preservation, Finger Lakes Land Trust continues to seal deals for conservation easements with state funds that have already come through. The latest, announced Thursday, preserves 519 acres in Yates County. More...
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The McGuinty government is low-balling the cost of modernizing Ontario's fleet of nuclear reactors, critics say, calling into question its own projection that consumers' hydro bills will double by 2030. More...