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Old Fort Niagara has received a $240,000 grant from the National Park Service to improve and preserve the historic site. More...

With an offer on the table that would allow public acquisition of the 171 acres of duneland between Oval Beach and the Kalamazoo River, the attention of preservation and environmental groups now shifts to meeting the $25 million price. More...

A disagreement between Wisconsin and the federal government over how to regulate ballast water has left Great Lakes ship owners facing possible legal action if they enter Badger State ports after Dec. 19. More...

Behind the scenes in the U.S. and in Europe, the race is on to build the world's first deep-water wind farms, ones that would operate on floating platforms in waters hundreds of feet deep. More...

This site presents a new initiative to address botulism, a disease now implicated in thousands of bird, fish, and amphibian mortalities across the Great Lakes each year. More...

If The Nature Conservancy can come up with $25 million in six weeks, more than a hundred acres of Saugatuck duneland could be preserved. More...

The global economy might be slowing down and with it international trade, but so far it is having little effect on the Port of Montreal - one of the main North American gateways for goods transiting Eastern Canada and the U.S. Midwest. More...

Making the parts for the machinery to tap wind for energy is emerging even as the state's traditional steel and auto manufacturing base struggles, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland said Tuesday. More...

Merging environmental education and activism with music, art and community, The Water Festival is uniting the generations to protect the future. More...

Enjoy the winning photos from Lake Erie Living's inaugural 2008 photo contest, including the grand prize winning photo taken at sunset on Horseshoe Pond in Presque Isle. More...

The global recession has taken some air out of the wind-power market, but that doesn't worry Mike Ballard, president of Cincinnati Pattern Co., whose current projects include work for energy projects. More...

Residents from Au Gres to Caseville may have done a double take when they looked out on Saginaw Bay on Friday, according to U.S. Coast Guard officials. About 10 freighters were anchored in the bay, seeking shelter, due to high waves in Lake Huron, according to Coast Guard officials. More...

The smell of fresh paint drifts through an almost empty warehouse. Near the back researchers inspect a solar panel that's lighter and more flexible than traditional models. Within the last year, the number of employees at Xunlight Corp. has grown from 16 to 64. And there's plenty of room for more. More...

The last little bits of a long-abandoned dump in a ravine on the edge of Two Harbors are scheduled for cleanup, if only the city can find the estimated $150,000 to do it. More...

Congress is considering the possible funding of the construction of a new lock at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, a half-billion dollar undertaking that would rank as the largest navigation infrastructure project on the Great Lakes in a generation. More...

This website is dedicated to Chicago's candidacy for the 2016 Olympic Games. It features resources for volunteering, promotion and support, and provides general information about Chicago's plan for the games. More...

Swimmers put off by slimy, foul-smelling cladophora algae covering Lake Michigan beaches and rocky shorelines in summer have a pair of new allies in the ongoing battle: Daniel Zitomer and hungry microbes. Where some see a putrid eyesore, Zitomer sees a sweet opportunity to make energy. More...

Is climate change killing off Minnesota's moose? That appears to be the case, according to scientists and wildlife managers meeting here to talk about the dramatic decline in the state's moose population in recent decades. More...

The fate of Detroit's Big 3 automakers has been grabbing headlines of late, but an equally important push for a massive federal investment in public infrastructure also could reap huge benefits for the Great Lakes State, both in terms of creating much-needed jobs as well as improving our highways and roads. More...

Lake Erie's temperature at Buffalo has reached 39 degrees, meaning it's cold enough to begin installing the spans of the Lake Erie-Niagara River ice boom, according to the International Joint Commission's International Niagara Board of Control. More...

Hamilton will be forced to freeze future growth if it doesn't receive millions in government funding to help build a new wastewater treatment plant. Without the project, the city may not meet the goal of delisting the harbour as a Great Lakes pollution hot spot by 2015. More...

A local wind energy task force says ice poses a natural threat to the structural integrity of wind turbines that would rise some 300 feet over water. To study the threat, the task force acquired a $20,000 ultrasonic device that measures ice thickness. More...

While the idea of surfing on Lake Michigan may seem counterintuitive, there is a thriving community of boarders who "shred" the waves, but not in Chicago. That's because surfboards are covered by a ban on flotation devices. That may be about to change, though. More...

Using dredged material can offset the need to mine or import sand or soil from other areas. It can also save valuable space in costly disposal facilities for those really contaminated materials that cannot be reused.This web site iprovides three different portals for getting information about sources of dredged material near you that can be used beneficially. More...

DuPage County officials are working toward getting three small water distribution systems connected to Lake Michigan water. If all goes according to plan, lake water will begin flowing by next spring to 1,100 households. More...