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The leaf-watching season is in full swing in the northern half of the Wisconsin and they're approaching their most colorful in the Milwaukee area, though it could be a few more weeks before most leaves turn in the southern part of the state. More...
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The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center website features a page full of educational and informative materials about the promising field of bioenergy. The site presents energy statistics, multimedia presentations, and educator resources. More...
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As the global environment warms through the course of this century, the Canadian climate will change in both bad and good ways, according to a new publication from the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy and the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. More...
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U.S. Coast Guard investigators are trying to determine the source of an oil spill that soiled a Lake Huron beach at Cheboygan State Park in Cheboygan, Mich. More...
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Millions of tiny white plastic pellets have been washing up on beaches lately in the Port Albert to Port Franks area of Lake Huron. More...
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A tugboat that ran aground on rocks about 100 yards off the Lake Michigan coast of north suburban Glencoe, Ill., on Saturday is no longer leaking fuel, but about 2,000 gallons must be removed from the vessel, officials said. More...
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"Hysteria" appears to be the only suitable term for the ill-informed opposition to plans to send 16 worn-out steam generators from an Ontario nuclear plant off by ship to Sweden, via the St. Lawrence Seaway, for recycling. More...
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A researcher studying the fish said this weekend that he hopes salmon stocking lessons learned in Ontario may help revive threatened salmon populations in British Columbia rivers. More...
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The new web-based system will help individuals, organizations and community leaders to better understand how much water is being conserved by using rain-barrels, rain gardens, roof top gardens, permeable surfaces and other water conservation practices. More...
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Many of the shipwrecks located along the East Coast have eroded from years in salt water. But the cold, fresh water of the Great Lakes preserves these lost pieces of history. More...
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A $196,148 grant awarded to the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians will be the catalyst for a three year habitat restoration project in the Bear River watershed. More...
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The fight against what's been called the greatest threat to the Great Lakes will see Canadian scientists join with their American counterparts to take on the Asian carp. More...
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The cleanup continued Thursday at the site of a spill that sent 5,500 litres of a mixture of diesel and water into the St. Lawrence River Tuesday. More...
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Each fall hundreds of thousands of monarch butterflies migrate south for the winter. The insects are found all over the country but are often spotted in Great Lakes states. You can help record their progress via Journey North's Monarch Butterfly Migration Tracking Project. More...
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After more than 200 years of statehood, Ohio is hammering out Lake Erie's official boundary in the wake of an already 6-year-old lawsuit filed in the name of all lakefront property owners. More...
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Millions of tiny plastic pellets have been washing up on the Lake Huron shoreline in recent days, prompting concern for wildlife and raising questions about their source. More...
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From the Steel Winds wind turbines site in Lackawanna to the BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York complex in downtown Buffalo, the region has found ways to make productive properties out of its brownfields. More...
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The cleanup continued Thursday at the site of a spill that sent 5,500 litres of a mixture of diesel and water into the St. Lawrence River Tuesday. More...
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Zebra mussel, sea lamprey, round goby - they're household names when it comes to Great Lakes invasive species - but which one is the worst for the ecosystem? That's what the "Great Lakes SmackDown!" will find out. More...
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For thousands of years, the Great Lakes were protected by Niagara Falls on the east and a subcontinental divide on the west, but those barriers to our grandest freshwater system were obliterated over the past century so that oceanic freighters could float in and Chicago sewage could float out. More...
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The Ohio Lake Erie Commission approved two new Lake Erie Protection Fund grant awards, which will help improve water quality and provide a direct benefit to Lake Erie and its tributary watersheds in Ohio. More...
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Environmental hearings begin in Quèbec on Monday into the risks of tapping a 5,000-square-kilometre energy source one federal document calls an energy "game changer." More...
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Undersized, underused and under fire for unleashing an onslaught of devastating biological pollution into the Great Lakes, the Seaway could reverse its declining relevance if it were to reposition itself as a modern nautical highway to move goods regionally. More...
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When the U.S. Senate abandoned greenhouse gas-curbing legislation, they also pulled the plug on 1.9 million new clean energy jobs, according to a report released by a coalition of business groups. More...
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The Town of Waukesha does not have legal authority to block the city from constructing five shallow wells adjacent to the Vernon Wildlife Area, Assistant City Attorney Julie Gay says in court documents asking Waukesha County Circuit Judge Mac Davis to dismiss a town lawsuit. More...