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Gibraltar Point, the southwestern tip of the Toronto Islands, is disappearing from the map. Exposure to Lake Ontario's wave action is causing the sandy shoreline to wash away, and beachfront will continue to be lost if nothing is done, warns the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. More...

Great Lakes issues are often pushed into a single, too often neglected, category -- the environment. But beyond the very serious implications surrounding the threat of our natural water resources, neglecting to preserve the Great Lakes will have a significant impact on the economy. More...

The Great Lakes Basin Water Resource Compact must be ratified by all eight Great Lakes states before it can be approved by Congress, and it's important to finish the job before the 2010 Census starts draining congressional seats and power to the South and West. Already, one presidential candidate from the parched Southwest. More...

The debate over a compact by eight Great Lakes states to stop large-scale water diversions and promote water conservation is heading to Wisconsin's Legislature. More...

With the survival of their industry at stake, Ohio's commercial fishermen are entangled in a web of political bureaucracy. More...

South Bruce Peninsula is calling on Bruce County to support a petition it sent to the federal government calling on it to do something about declining water levels in the Great Lakes. More...

Phragmites, pronounced frag-MY-teez, is a giant, perennial reed that can grow to 15 feet tall. An invasive strain of the towering grass is spreading like a bad rash across Michigan, colonizing wetlands, crowding out native plants that provide wildlife habitat and, in some areas, harming residential property values by blocking water views. More...

The Thunder Bay Field Naturalists have bought a little piece of paradise - 60 acres worth. The group has added the 60-acre Paradise Island, 45 kilometres southwest of Rossport, to its 950 acres of ecologically-significant land holdings in the region. More...

Though Hemingway spent a lot of time in Michigan, it was mainly in lower Michigan at his family's summer home on Walloon Lake in the Charlevoix-Petosky area. He did visit the U.P. at least once, in 1919 while recovering from his war wounds, and this visit was later memorialized in one of the Nick Adams stories, "The Big Two-Hearted River," set in the town of Seney. Hemingway actually wrote the story in 1922 in a Paris cafe, as he later recounted in "A Moveable Feast." More...

The Free Press sent questions to eight top presidential candidates asking their views on a variety of issues relevant to the Great Lakes, but only received one response. More...

The Great Lakes Water Compact must be adopted across the basin to ensure that our region controls the rules that will govern the use of Great Lakes water, say two Wisconsin State senators. More...

With no clear leader in the race for the Republican Party's presidential nomination and Michigan's primary election coming soon, candidates could do themselves and the Great Lakes a favor by stepping forward and pledging support for Great Lakes restoration. More...

If you're planning to ice skate on a local lake or river this winter, you may need to think twice, according to scientists from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. From sources as diverse as newspaper archives, transportation ledgers and religious observances, the researchers have amassed 150 years of lake and river ice records. All show a steady trend of fewer days of ice cover. More...

The Great Lakes Water Compact must be adopted across the basin to ensure that our region controls the rules that will govern the use of Great Lakes water, say two Wisconsin State senators. More...

With no clear leader in the race for the Republican Party's presidential nomination and Michigan's primary election coming soon, candidates could do themselves and the Great Lakes a favor by stepping forward and pledging support for Great Lakes restoration. More...

Disinfecting ballast water in ocean freighters may not keep the ships from importing more foreign species into the Great Lakes, according to a new study by University of Notre Dame biologists. More...

The Free Press sent questions to eight top presidential candidates asking their views on a variety of issues relevent to the Great Lakes, but only received one response. More...

A two-year study of wind off downtown Cleveland's shoreline found that Lake Erie winds are the strongest recorded anywhere in Ohio. More...

Ohio's first large foray into ethanol production officially began on Thursday with the opening of a plant with an annual production capacity of 65 million gallons. More...

Fertilizers that are high in phosphorus are blamed for rapid weed growth and frequent outbreaks of algae on Lake St. Clair. Michigan officials are eyeing a ban on many lawn fertilizers. More...

A report released last month by environmental experts from the United States and Canada indicates that thirty-five years of pollution prevention and control has produced dramatic ecological recovery to the Detroit River and western Lake Erie. More...

A Great Lakes water agreement won't seem like such a big deal to Northwest Indiana residents swimming and boating in Lake Michigan, and that's the point. More...

A Lake Erie ferry linking Ohio and Ontario is among the issues port authorities on the American side of the lake have resolved to work on together. More...

A little piece of Paradise can now be protected as the Thunder Bay Field Naturalists have finalized the purchase of Paradise Island. More...

If there's anything positive that can come out of a survey that found the fewest Lake Michigan forage fish in more than 30 years, it's that alewives are holding their own. More...