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To help make the most of your Indiana trip this fall, check out the many Leaf Cams around the state. Catch their magical explosion every fifteen minutes. More...
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It is our responsibility to this generation, and our legacy to future generations, to advance the cause of protecting the most precious of natural resources: clean water. More...
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Rebounding from a dismal boating season in 2006, the Erie Canal has had one of its best in recent years, officials say, despite an earlier-than-planned closing next month. More...
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As we celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Clean Water Act on this month, Congress should pass the Clean Water Restoration Act. More...
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London will add sodium hydroxide, more commonly known as lye or caustic soda, to drinking water to reduce lead levels at the tap. More...
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Northern Bruce Peninsula council has taken steps to protect itself and its ratepayers from the cost of any legal actions after refusing a Saugeen Ojibwa request that it stop issuing building permits for a subdivision on the Lake Huron shoreline. More...
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Lawmakers should pass the multi-state water protection compact, known as Annex 2001, to stave off would-be lake looters. More...
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Bowling Green is one of 75 Ohio cities and villages considering major investments in a coal-fired power plant that has been proposed in southeast Ohio. More...
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On the Lower Niagara, catching king salmon is not so much a cerebral pursuit. When the conditions are right and the fish are running, it is a battle in muscular currents with a feisty fish and the river roaring like the crowd at a prizefight. More...
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The lack of rain that is partly responsible for the lake levels that are 22 centimeters below average has resulted in the local conservation authority declaring a Level 1 low-water condition that could be upgraded to a Level 2. More...
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The Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, in partnership with a network of academic, public policy, business and civic organizations, began a multi-year research and policy development initiative in 2005 to improve the economic vitality of the Great Lakes region. This site will provide updates on progress. More...
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Neighbors and environmental advocates are decrying an Ohio agency's decision to allow a proposed ethanol plant to dump 323 million gallons of wastewater a year into a lake already battling high levels of pollution. More...
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A private security company's unarmed guards have been yanked out of Chicago's two water filtration plants amid concerns about safeguarding the city's drinking water. More...
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A persistent stretch of rain in Minnesota has gone a long way toward loosening the stranglehold of drought that has gripped much of the state since last year. More...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency still has not determined how much pollution goes into Lake Michigan, despite a request from a U.S. senator in the wake of last summer's BP controversy. More...
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Scientists sometimes refer to the effect climate change will have on fresh water as the other water problem, because diminished supplies of fresh water might prove a far more serious problem than slowly rising seas. More...
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The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources would like to reduce cormorant numbers by about half on five islands Lake Michigan islands, one of which is a national wildlife refuge. More...
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The Great Lakes face a variety of challenges, but progress is being made on some fronts, environmental representatives say. More...
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John Freidhoff, lead boat captain and field station manager for Buffalo State College's Great Lakes Center for Environmental Research and Education, died Friday while scuba diving in Lake Ontario. More...
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The IJC announced that its International Upper Great Lakes Study Board will expedite its study of the St. Clair River to determine whether changes in water levels are the result of natural or human influences. The Study will produce a draft report a full year ahead of schedule by February, 2009. More...
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A new study finds that most of the man-made wetlands created under a "no net loss" policy to replace natural ones lost to construction or other projects aren't doing very well. More...
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Michigan has no excuse for not being a thriving leader in the knowledge-based, environmentally conscious global economy of the future. More...
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The Environmental Protection Agency has found more problems with Indiana's proposed permit for a U.S. Steel mill on Lake Michigan in Gary. More...
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The International Joint Commission, which oversees boundary waters issues between the two countries, said it will expedite its study of the "drain hole" theory on the St. Clair River to find out whether ongoing erosion since a 1960s Army Corps of Engineers dredging project has caused lake levels to plummet. More...
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Dead waterfowl found sporadically along the Lake Michigan shoreline dramatically illustrate the impact of invasive species on Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. More...