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Water temperatures climbed to 80 degrees Sunday afternoon and early evening at a buoy stationed in the middle of the lake - the first time it reached 80 since 2001, according to the National Weather Service. More...
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Baltimore, Milwaukee and Erie, Pa., all have one. Why shouldn't Duluth boast a tall ship of its own, too? Well, it nearly did. More...
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Coastal communities in a quandary about climate change are getting help from an informative NOAA resource, the Coastal Climate Adaptation website. The site was recently updated to include new functionality and additional opportunities to discuss climate-related topics. More...
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A large bighead Asian carp discovered in June in Lake Calumet, just six miles from Lake Michigan, appears to have lived out most of its life in the lake and may have been put there by humans, scientists said today. More...
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Few who have spent time trolling on Lake St. Clair would argue that it is not the best muskellunge lake on the continent. More...
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Noted shipwreck explorer Jim Kennard will present the "Deep Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario" on Aug. 13 and "More Wrecks of Lake Ontario" Aug. 14 at the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center in Sackets Harbor, N.Y. More...
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Cassis -- a liqueur made with blackcurrants -- has been gaining fans in Canada, due largely to the efforts of one entrepreneurial family on Ile D'Orleans in the St. Lawrence River near Quèbec City. More...
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These are not the good old days for "perchers," and haven't been since a precipitous decline in the Lake Michigan perch population began in the 1990s. More...
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Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle was at Sheboygan's King Park on Tuesday to announce more than $1 million in federal funding for environmental restoration work on the Sheboygan River and Lake Michigan shoreline. More...
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Additional grant funding will further a study that was done by the University of Guelph a year ago that found that agricultural waste is the main source of E.coli bacteria in Lake Huron. More...
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U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has joined Save the River, a Clayton nonprofit, in the group's fight to have the U.S. St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. and the Canadian Seaway Management Corp. reveal their formula for setting the Seaway's opening date. More...
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Gov. Doyle campaigning for continued Great Lakes initiatives
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Gov. Jim Doyle is spending his time campaigning for the environment and the Great Lakes - instead of canvassing for votes as other politicians are doing. More... -
A big week at Michigan Tech as the university breaks ground on the Great Lakes Research Center on Thursday. More...
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A big week at Michigan Tech as the university breaks ground on the Great Lakes Research Center on Thursday. More...
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Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle stopped at Baileys Harbor Ridges County Park today to announce that the Door County Soil and Water Conservation Department is a finalist for a $250,000 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. More...
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Some 49,000 gallons of rain and sewage mix was diverted into Lake Superior early today near Fifth Avenue East at the Lakewalk in Duluth. More...
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A map published in Superior, Wisconsin in 1889 may be one of the first Great Lakes mashups. The creator, A.F. McKay, combined a U.S. map with a drawing of a human body in an attempt to promote Superior's potential as a transportation hub. More...
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Keep an eye on the kids, remember the raft is always farther away than it looks and don't jump off the boathouse. Those are among the tips experts are offering in the midst of a spike this summer in the number of water accidents and fatalities. More...
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The Great Lakes Law Center on Monday sent Enbridge Inc. a notice of intent to file if a settlement isn't reached with U.S. EPA within 60 days. The letter accuses the company of violating the Clean Water Act. More...
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Officials have finished cleaning up the fuel that spilled into the St. Lawrence Seaway following a freighter accident earlier this month. More...
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Canada's nuclear safety regulator has agreed to hold a public hearing into a controversial plan to ship 1,760 tonnes of radiation-laced steel through Lake Ontario. More...
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Western Lake Erie could be on the verge of one of its worst algae outbreaks in years. More...
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Long-term warming of the Great Lakes climate is melting the ice from Minnesota lakes earlier in the year. As those "ice-out" dates move farther up the calendar, they may be disrupting the reproduction of a popular sport fish. More...
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The blimplike device that hovered over western Lake Erie this time last year is back for another summer of surveillance. Its mission is to track western Lake Erie's algae bloom. More...
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Researchers have recorded some of the highest-ever phosphorus levels in two rivers that drain into Lake Erie, creating huge algae blooms that contribute to growing oxygen-depleted "dead zones" that kill fish. More...