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A report out today from Michigan State University has encouraging news for some college students who will enter the job market next year. More...
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Central Michigan has lived with toxic dioxin pollution in two major rivers and Saginaw Bay for decades. A series by the Environment Report looks at who's been affected, why it's taken so long to clean up, how the science behind dioxin has played into this, and what the cleanup means for the rest of the country. More...
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Green Renaissance of Western New York (GrowWNY) is a source of information about living green for western New York. It is made possible through grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the New York State Department of State Division of Coastal Resources. More...
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As Michigan fights to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes, a push is underway in Illinois to make the fish more popular to eat. More...
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Indiana has over 30 coal-burning power plants. The smoke rises and disperses in the air, but its chemical contents do not vanish. They linger in the atmosphere and they return to the earth, and to the waterways of Indiana, with the rain. More...
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There's a rivalry brewing between Bay City, Mich., and Chicago, Ill., when it comes to hosting a fleet of tall ships and the competition could continue in 2013. More...
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Pittsburgh became the first city in gas-rich Pennsylvania to ban natural gas drilling after City Council members unanimously approved the measure Tuesday. More...
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Port Hope's air, drinking water, fish, beach, soil -- virtually everything in the town of 16,000 poses a health risk from radioactivity, anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott warned an overflow crowd Tuesday night. More...
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When the passage opens for business this winter, fish of all sizes and shapes will be able to swim through the opening and move up a series of nine steps, pushing against the current of water flowing downhill in the channel. More...
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Northeast Ohio is but two weeks out from a historic vote by regional sewer board members that could triple sewer rates in Cleveland and surrounding suburbs over the next 25 years. More...
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Dakota County made the list of 16 places nationwide with too much lead in the air because of emissions at Gopher Resource, which processes lead-acid batteries. More...
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An engineering consultant appeared before the North Shore Sanitary District Board of Trustees to provide a status report on the deteriorating 54-inch pipe that carries treated sewage from the Waukegan, Ill., sanitary treatment plant on Lake Michigan to the Gurnee treatment plant on the Des Plaines River. More...
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Asian carps have managed to make their way into the mainstream as a featured installation in ArtPrize, an art festival and competition in Grand Rapids, Mich. Artist Lisa Murch constructed carps out of paper, foam and wire. More...
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The United States Coast Guard Sector Sault Ste. Marie, the sector responsible for breaking ice in the Straits of Mackinac, said while year round ferry service to Mackinac Island is possible, it is not their top priority. More...
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Lake Erie bird watchers from Lorain to Ashtabula, Ohio, befuddled state wildlife officials last week with sightings of gulls with mysterious black stains. More...
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The $7-billion energy deal with Korean manufacturing giant Samsung announced by the Ontario government was supposed to send about $750 million of wind turbine construction to Essex County, and maybe a manufacturing plant or two in Windsor or the county. More...
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The sun has begun to shine on a collaborative effort aiming to make the Great Lakes Bay Region the next solar energy research hub. More...
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Gov. David Paterson on Friday announced $61.5 million to fund more than 40 projects across the state geared toward improving water quality and reducing pollution. More...
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The six-mile force main, built in 1976 after environmental legislation prohibited the dumping of raw sewage into Lake Michigan, transports up to 20 million gallons of treated effluent daily through a series of pumping stations to the river. More...
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Starting next summer archaeologists will survey and document the S.S. Milwaukee and four other Lake Michigan shipwrecks in Wisconsin waters through a federal grant awarded this month to the Wisconsin Historical Society. More...
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The Great Lakes is sometimes referred to as a "third coast." But only a small part of it is actually what you would call surfable. One of the best places to catch a wave is at the southern tip of Lake Michigan in the small resort town of New Buffalo, about an hour's drive east from Chicago, Ill. More...
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If the average water level of Lake Huron rose by 4 inches, what would it mean for cottage owners, boaters and other interests? What if the lake rose 20 inches? What might it mean in a gale with 20-foot waves crashing ashore? More...
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Fisheries personnel with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Lower Great Lakes Fish & Wildlife Conservation Office in Amherst have begun a project to monitor adult lake trout movement in the Niagara River and around the Niagara Bar in Lake Ontario. More...
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State regulators have proposed tightening oversight of large livestock facilities, a move environmentalists worry doesn't go far enough while some farmers fear it goes too far. More...
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Entering the United States via immigration at Toronto's Pearson airport is an intimidating affair, so it is with trepidation that I approach the officer with the most fake sounding reason for travelling to Michigan in October: I plan to surf. More...