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The long-awaited, high-speed ferry to the Lake Erie Islands will be unveiled Thursday at Black River Landing in Lorain, Ohio. More...

Money to help alleviate the pollution problem in Lake Ontario could be available next year as part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. New York citizens should make their voices heard on this important effort. More...

With Michigan's lighthouses falling apart, their federal custodian is looking for groups to take them over. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to use the twin lights in Grand Haven to teach people about what it calls the evils of fishing. More...

BaySail, the nonprofit that operates two Appledore schooners out of Bay City, Mich., is pushing ahead with its campaign to build a new Saginaw Bay Environmental Education Center. The group plans to request partial funding from the EPA's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. More...

Researchers from Michigan's far north and a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lab in steamy Vicksburg, Miss., have formed an alliance to improve tools for monitoring pollution along the nation's shorelines. More...

More than 100 members of the Ohio General Assembly, state officials and other key policy makers participated in activities and events that showcased the region's travel and tourism industry and the importance of Lake Erie to the state as a whole. More...

As part of the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education spending bill H.R. 3293. Congressman Upton (R-MI 6th District) earmarked $150,000 for wind energy and utility worker job training at Lake Michigan College More...

The Aquatic Visitors Center was closed last season by the Ohio Division of Wildlife because of budget constraints, but the facility reopened this year in a partnership with Ohio State University. More...

Cooperating with the Nature conservancy the Minnesota DNR has been working to improve habitat for the sturgeon, Lake Superior's largest fish, by making their spawning grounds more suitable for the fish. More...

In what might be the cheekiest protest in history, angry citizens showed that they were not going to take a perceived invasion of privacy and violation of national sovereignty sitting down. A crowd of an angry Canadians took to Sarnia, Ontario to moon a surveillance camera floating in a balloon over Michigan. More...

A video of the U.S. EPA's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative presentation, as presented at the Chicago public meeting on July 22, 2009, is now available online. More...

Researchers from Michigan's far north and a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lab in steamy Vicksburg, Miss., have formed an alliance to improve tools for monitoring pollution along the nation's shorelines. More...

The global recession has hit the seaway hard, but it also faces a number of long-standing issues. Transportation has changed a great deal since the day the Queen, prime minister John Diefenbaker and president Dwight. D. Eisenhower officially opened the project, not far from where the Queen's yacht Britannia was moored. The seaway is having trouble adapting to the new reality. More...

Decades of languishing industrial pollution, combined with emerging threats like invasive species and a spike in a new chemical compounds known as endocrine disrupters, have rendered large sections of the Great Lakes inhospitable to both humans and wildlife. More...

Northwest Ohio representatives are fighting for more funding to clean up the Great Lakes and they say that will create jobs. More...

The shipwreck hunters who want to raise an old schooner from the bottom of Lake Erie and put it on display in the Buffalo harbor have been entangled in a five-year federal court battle with the state over rights to the vessel. More...

Cape Vincent, N.Y., is considering a one-year, townwide moratorium on wind development, which would prevent town residents from erecting personal wind turbines along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River while the town drafts a law to regulate wind development. More...

The water levels of Lakes Superior and St. Clair crept upward by 1-2 inches over the past month, and lakes Michigan and Huron held steady, according to a report issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The levels of lakes Erie and Ontario dropped by 2 inches between July 14 and Aug. 14. More...

A petition with more than 650 signatures was submitted at the Town Board meeting Thursday asking officials to enact a one-year, townwide moratorium on wind development. More...

The water levels of Lakes Superior and St. Clair crept upward by 1-2 inches over the past month, and Lakes Michigan and Huron held steady, according to a report issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The levels of Lakes Erie and Ontario dropped by 2 inches between July 14 and Aug. 14. More...

A documentary about the worldwide water crisis will debut in northern Michigan Monday, 7 p.m., at the State Theatre. "Blue Gold: World Water Wars" looks at citizen efforts around the world, including in Michigan, to stop the privatization or control of water by large international companies. More...

Flor for Water is a coalition of Midwestern citizen groups dedicated to protecting the Great Lakes Basin from water withdrawals. Visit the site to lend your support and sign an online pledge to protect Great Lakes waters. More...

The Cleveland waterfront could be transformed by 2013 into a year-round playground of recreation, restaurants and open space, according to concepts unveiled Thursday, Aug. 13, at a Cleveland Waterfront Development Project meeting. More...

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed legislation this week set to improve water quality and the environment. One bill prohibits health care institutions from flushing unused medication into the public wastewater systems. More...

Recently, the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) reopened the prospect of diversion and export of Quebec's "blue gold" - its abundant water supply. More...