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The Copenhagen climate change conference continues this week. Gov. Doyle will be among those attending. Because the conference is making international headlines, scientists in Wisconsin have written to the state's Congressional delegation. They're urging the lawmakers to support stronger measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. More...

Twenty years after the pervasive zebra mussel was first detected in the Great Lakes, the U.S. Coast Guard is preparing rules to prevent new invasive species from infiltrating the nation's freshwater systems. More...

A renewable-energy consulting firm hired by the New York State Power Authority is considering taking advantage of the Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority for the state's proposed Great Lakes wind projects, according to OBPA officials. More...

On the evening of October 31, 1780, the British sloop of war HMS Ontario sank with more than 120 men, women, children and prisoners on board in a sudden and violent gale on Lake Ontario. Although the British conducted a wide search following the ship's reported loss, little evidence was recovered. More...

State health officials don't believe it is harmful for beach users to come into contact with surface water or sediments in one area along Petoskey's waterfront that has a history of soil contamination. More...

The Little Traverse Conservancy is celebrating a milestone. The conservancy recently exceeded 40,000 acres of Michigan land protected since its formation. More...

The multi-million dollar dredging project for Manistique's harbor on Lake Michigan looks to be moving forward. More...

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's $50 million plan to develop its new School of Freshwater Sciences on a south side site overlooking the harbor has won unanimous approval from the UW System Board of Regents. More...

A $19 million Land Conservancy of West Michigan agreement to acquire 171 acres of Lake Michigan dunes property for a natural area south of the mouth of Kalamazoo River is a done deal. More...

Two things are certain: There are more PCBs in St. Clair Shores, Mich., and there will be money to clear the contamination around the 10 Mile Drain. More...

With renewed emphasis by President Obama to create more infrastructure jobs, trustees of the North Shore Sanitary District have decided to make another try to obtain $14.2 million to rehabilitate the deteriorating Waukegan, Ill. sewage force main. More...

Working in isolated "silos," government agencies are not serving the public interest when it comes to Port Stanley harbour on Lake Erie, a local activist has charged. More...

Michigan hunters would be able to take aim at a new big-game species -- moose -- under legislation introduced in the state Senate on Wednesday. More...

State and federal agencies hunting for Asian carp have reopened a critical lock leading to Lake Michigan that was closed last week, after failing to find any Asian carp there. More...

The format of public meetings this week on a proposed $600 million copper-nickel mining project in northeastern Minnesota will discourage public discourse, groups say. One of the key questions is whether the mine will contaminate waters that flow into tributaries of Lake Superior. More...

The Port of Milwaukee is keeping an eye on Chicago to learn if any additional Asian carp are there. The port director is urging patience in seeking a solution; he says it must protect both transportation routes and the environment. More...

The Port of Milwaukee is keeping an eye on Chicago to learn if any additional Asian carp are there. The port director is urging patience in seeking a solution; he says it must protect both transportation routes and the environment. More...

On a cold December night a century ago, in the midst of a Lake Erie winter gale, the crew and passenger of the Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 disappeared somewhere in Lake Erie. Thirty-one crew members and one passenger lost their lives, but the ship itself has never been found. More...

Nine European countries have pledged to create a "supergrid" in the North Sea to encourage the growth of offshore wind power. More...

Several days of workers netting fish revealed no Asian carp in the Calumet Sag Channel, the task force marshaled against the invasive species said Tuesday evening. More...

The Port of Milwaukee is keeping an eye on Chicago to learn if any additional Asian carp are there. The port director is urging patience in seeking a solution; he says it must protect both transportation routes and the environment. More...

A plan by the city of Grand Rapids to build power-generating wind turbines in Grand Haven Township deserves careful scrutiny from township officials. But they should undertake their review with an eye toward accommodating this promising idea. More...

As representatives from 192 countries began the world's most historic climate talks in Copenhagen yesterday, Lisa Jackson, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator, stole the show on the west side of the Atlantic Ocean when she declared greenhouse gases a threat to "the public health and welfare of the American people" at a news conference in Washington. More...

Eighteen Canadian officials, most of them from the federal Fisheries Department, have been helping co-ordinate a mass fish slaughter along a Chicago-area canal in a bid to stop the carp's advance toward Lake Michigan. More...

Michigan officials are asking for action that could include permanently closing the locks in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to ensure invasive Asian carp can never get into the Great Lakes. But closing the Canal would hurt the industries the waterway was built to serve. More...