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A Lake Huron marine sanctuary that contains the remains of more than 100 shipwrecks would grow eight times larger under new legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Carl Levin. More...
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Seven Great Lakes lawmakers are urging Senate leader Harry Reid to aid the region's fight against invasive aquatic species by finding a compromise between competing bills to regulate the discharge of ships' ballast water into the freshwater lakes. More...
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People living in the Great Lakes region must protect the lakes from being siphoned away to drier, and also must not waste the water of the Great Lakes themselves. More...
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Steel Winds Wind Farm, on the site old Bethlehem Steel mill along Lake Erie, is the first urban wind farm in the country, the first to go up on a former industrial site, and the first wind farm on the American great lakes. More...
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A fish-eye view of the St. Clair River casts doubt on the theory that erosion of the riverbed is a significant factor in the historic declines in water levels of lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron, IJC researchers have said. More...
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Dozens of dead birds along the shore could be the first outbreak of Type E botulism in Grand Traverse Bay since a recent resurgence of the disease along Lake Michigan shorelines. More...
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Development along the shores of Lake Superior could be the greatest threat to the lake, according to a panel of scientists at a recent conference in Duluth. More...
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The International Upper Great Lakes Study today released its semiannual Progress Report highlighting the many research projects and other initiatives already under way. Included in the report were initial results from work currently underway in the St. Clair River that has already captured more than 50 kilometers (30 miles) of the river bed on videotape. More...
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Great Lakes legislators need to enact the Great Lakes Compact before the next census in 2010 in order to protect Great Lakes water from thirsty, drought-ridden southern and western states, says a coalition of environmental groups. More...
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A national investment to clean up the Great Lakes will pay for itself four-fold and help speed the transition of the nation's Rust Belt into the Freshwater Coast, according to a recent report from the Brookings Institution. More...
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The Asian carp, a non-native species imported from China and Siberia, is eating its way up the Mississippi River toward the Great Lakes, conquering water ecosystems in its path. More...
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The Friends of Allegheny National Fish Hatchery is being formed to help put back in business one of the only hatcheries devoted to re-establishing native lake trout populations in the Great Lakes. More...
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Environmentalists along Lake Erie are watching the calendar and hoping that this year the annual die-off of fish and birds killed by botulism skips the area. More...
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Researchers are examining the threats posed to Lake Superior by new chemicals from prescription drugs that people flush down the drains and that alter fish's ability to reproduce. More...
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Wisconsin anglers need to make some changes beginning Friday, when rules that were put in place to help stop the spread of viral hemorrhagic septicemia are expanded to all waters of the state. More...
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An epic drought parching the Southeast is yet another example of why we need to enact the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resource Compact in order to safeguard our precious water. More...
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Georgia's water woes would seem to provide Michigan's economic development agency a prime opportunity to encourage businesses in that state to relocate north. More...
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Video images from the bottom of the St. Clair River have turned up no evidence that erosion caused by dredging is causing water levels on the upper Great Lakes to drop, according to the International Joint Commission. More...
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A recently passed Senate bill in Michigan could prohibit jumps from public piers and structures along the Great Lakes and connecting waters. More...
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While others dry out, we revel in the abundance of the most basic of substances: water. Whatever the decision is on what to do with it, it's a nice problem to have. More...
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According to scientists, Wisconsin and Minnesota lakes are losing almost a week every 10 years of ice cover. More...
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With Earth Voyager's first season as the flagship of the Friends of the St. Clair River Watershed over, the nonprofit group still is looking for help to make its plans for the 60-foot trimaran a reality next year. More...
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The largest lake in the world is showing itself to be an extremely sensitive indicator of global warming, said scientists in Duluth, adding that the time to change is now. More...
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The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency yesterday reinstated several of the major 2005 permit modifications that a state panel stripped away from FDS Coke Plant LLC in June, including one that attempts to cap the proposed coking facility's mercury emissions at 51 pounds a year. More...
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With Lake Michigan as a sparkling backdrop, a few dozen local officials from southeastern Wisconsin emphasized the urgency for state legislation that would prevent the diversion of Great Lakes water beyond the freshwater basin. More...