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The U.S. House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee approved full funding for the new $475 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which addresses threats to the Great Lakes, including invasive species, toxic pollution and habitat restoration. More...
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Shoreline property owners would have to limit the size of new driveways, decks and roofs under changes to Wisconsin's waterfront building regulations announced by state environmental officials. More...
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A team of divers is set to plunge into Lake Ontario near Kingston, Ont., next week in a bid to confirm the discovery of a legendary Canadian-built ship from the War of 1812, the HMS Wolfe. More...
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Representatives from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Wisconsin Historical Society were met with open arms by area divers Wednesday, who seemed excited and pleased at the possibility of opening a marine sanctuary in the area around Lake Michigan. More...
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The chinook salmon that once were the mainstay of the Lake Huron's sport fishing largely are gone, victims of the bottom-up collapse of the food web that took out the exotic alewife baitfish the salmon needed to survive. More...
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Genesee County's proposal to pipe its own water from Lake Huron received an expected - and way off-base - slam from the north this week. More...
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Wind turbines are creating some bad buzz in Michigan's Thumb. The big blades have been welcomed by many, but a handful of people who live near turbines are now complaining about ongoing noise. More...
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More than a dozen agencies from the U.S. and Canada participated in a joint training exercise Wednesday to prepare for possible oil or chemical spills on Lake Erie. More...
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Monday's big wind off Lake Superior churned up the water in the Twin Ports harbor and probably contributed to the first beach advisory for bacteria of the season. More...
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Where you stand on Lake Michigan and Huron water levels depends on where you stand. West Michigan areas are most concerned about recently rising levels, while at the opposite end of the basin the concern is low levels. More...
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For two years, scientists and engineers from the U.S. and Canada have worked to answer questions about the St. Clair River system and its impact on the upper Great Lakes. The International Joint Commission is now bringing its findings to the public and seeking comment in Wisconsin. More...
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Researchers, scientists and Jacques Cousteau's granddaughter painted a bleak picture Tuesday of the future of oceans and the "blue economy" of the nation's coastal states. More...
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Between the fall of 1941 and 1945, 17,280 pilots became qualified to fly over the Great Lakes. Of those, 22 pilots were killed over Lake Michigan and roughly 228 aircraft still lay at rest at the bottom of the lake. More...
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Recreational boaters looking for a marina facility or convenient boat launch ramp can download the newly updated Ohio Boating Areas map and guide from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Watercraft. More...
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Cheboygan County, Michigan, is threatening to go to court to stop Genesee County's proposed water pipeline to Lake Huron. More...
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Ancient caribou-hunting camp may lie at bottom of Lake Huron
News posted a topic in Great Lakes News
Scientists probing an underwater ridge 35 metres deep in Lake Huron -- and running 160 kilometres across the U.S.-Canadian border -- have found what they believe to be 9,000-year-old traces of an ancient caribou-hunting camp used by some of the earliest inhabitants of North America. More... -
Within the next two weeks, a contractor working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is expected to begin dredging the River Raisin navigation channel from Lake Erie to the Port of Monroe turning basin. More...
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Most years, the St. Marys steelhead run would have petered out by June. This year, due to cooler water temperatures, the big fish are still thick in the rapids on the Canadian side of the river, and they should be there at least another two weeks. More...
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Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is calling on federal officials to support the dredging of the Port of Ogdensburg. More...
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The American eel has for millennia swam thousands of miles of ocean to reach Lake Ontario, where it matures and then swims back to its ocean birthplace to spawn and die. But after 125 million years, the eel is vanishing from the St. Lawrence River-Lake Ontario system. More...
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With everything from government legislation to public sentiment driving the demand for alternative energy, traditional Northeast Ohio businesses have a great opportunity to diversify into this rapidly growing field. More...
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Lake sturgeon have spawned four times on a reef constructed late last year at the head of Fighting Island in the Detroit River. The spawning of the lake sturgeon, a threatened species in Michigan and Ontario, is the first time in 30 years it was confirmed on the Canadian side of the Detroit River. More...
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Waukesha's pursuit of Lake Michigan water is likely headed for a logjam of delays because state rules are not in place to guide the thirsty community through a potentially thorny quest to gain permission by other Great Lakes states to turn on the tap, Milwaukee officials and environmental advocates say. More...
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An unusual fishing technique - electrofishing - is demonstrating the improved quality of Cleveland's Cuyahoga River, which spurred an environmental movement after it caught fire 40 years ago. More...
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The Upper Peninsula Environmental Coalition is the only grassroots group which focuses solely on environmental issues across all of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. More...