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Michigan State University and News/Talk 760 WJR have launched this web site with the goal of providing information and insight into the organizations committed to making the Great Lakes region a leader in environmental practices. With video, podcasts, pictures, graphics and numerous links to other relative sites and news stories, Greening of the Great Lakes is designed to be an entertaining online resource for anyone interested in learning about the Great Lakes region. More...

Legislation being circulated in the Ohio state senate to ratify the Great Lakes Compact would seek to make two substantive changes in that agreement. More...

There's a silver lining to the all of this winter's storm clouds - they're brining in more than the usual lake-effects snows, which could help bring up the water levels on the Great Lakes. More...

Scientists who study Lake Michigan warn that global warning of 3 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit could reduce water levels and disrupt the lake's ecological balance. More...

A congressional committee is investigating why the Centers for Disease Control has declined to release a report about health problems near contaminated sites around the Great Lakes. More...

Concerns over the environmental impacts of road salt are a reason to explore alternatives but should not interfere with the highest priority of keeping drivers safe. More...

The Wisconsin state legislature should reject belated efforts to rewrite the Great Lakes Compact, negotiated after eight years of work by eight states and two Canadian provinces. More...

The Gunflint Trail in Minnesota's Arrowhead region is home to some of the state's best cross-country skiing and wildest backcountry. More...

Community officials in Ontario are welcoming the release of a report detailing local government expenditures on Great Lakes protection and restoration. More...

It is unlikely that Duluth's wastewater overflow problem will get any help from the state this year, after both the governor and state senate left out overflow basin funding in their recommended bonding bill. More...

Two Waukesha County leaders have said that legislation on the Great Lakes Compact should not be rushed through because of concerns that it would allow competing states to squelch growth in Wisconsin. More...

Officials from national parks surrounding Lake Superior are working with the Grand Portage Band of Ojibwe to develop a plan to deal with VHS, a disease that's one of the most recent "invasive" threats to the Great Lakes. More...

As hundreds of environmental activists gather in Washington today to mark Great Lakes Day in the nation's capital, a new study finds a huge gap between local communities and the federal government in funding for the lakes. More...

Don't necessarily include Sault Ste. Marie among the coalition of cross-border communities lashing out at senior government over its miniscule investment into Great Lakes protection and restoration. More...

Advocates are gathering Thursday in Washington, D.C., for Great Lakes Day. As we do, the citizens of Michigan and of all the Great Lakes states should take time to recognize the importance of these priceless bodies of water and what we need to do collectively to protect and preserve them. More...

Our lives are affected everyday by the Great Lakes, and we need to take responsibility for protecting them. More...

Authorities warn that venturing onto the shifting ice -- or even Lake Michigan's piers -- is a dangerous trek. More...

Following several years of negotiation the town of Leamington and the H.J.Heinz Company have reached what has been deemed an "historic agreement" on the pollution control plant. More...

An underground pipe has been confirmed as the source of a leak of a radioactive substance from Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Covert, a spokesman said. More...

A Cramahe Township dairy farmer thinks the township should look at biodigesters before it moves forward with an expensive pipeline to move treated sewage out into Lake Ontario. More...

Quebec aquariums and zoos are leaping to the defence of an animal that is increasingly threatened with extinction in La Belle Province and around the world -- frogs. More...

The Great Lakes are vital to Michigan's future and they must be protected with legislation that recognizes their importance both as a recreational and commercial resource. More...

Maybe the Saginaw Bay is impaired for nutrients and algae, after all. More...

Wisconsin natural resource officials want to nominate the St. Louis River estuary as the first in the Lake Superior region to be named part of the National Estuarine Research Reserve System. More...

Renewable energy could be a key part of Michigan's economic future, according to the head of the Michigan Economic Development Corp. More...