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New Baltimore officials are inviting residents to participate in the next phase of a sustainable harbor case study. More...
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Ever since New York state seized riverfront to build the dam more than 50 years ago, a strong anti-Power Authority and anti-Albany streak has run through the towns along the St. Lawrence. More...
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Despite its unequaled environmental performance, marine transport is accused of causing impacts for which it is not solely responsible. More...
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While many people captured magnificent photos, authorities continue to warn people to stay off the ice. More...
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The U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office will present a webinar titled Great Lakes Phytoplankton: a Harbinger for Change, on Mar. 5. The webinar will present and discuss Great Lakes Monitoring data that have clearly revealed significant changes in whole-lake conditions resulting from human activities. More...
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A group of Hoosiers traveled to Washington D.C. to urge members of Congress to restore federal efforts to protect Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes. More...
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Stabenow introduces legislation to stop spread of Asian carp
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The Defending Our Great Lakes Act would will give federal agencies broad authority to take immediate actions to stop the spread of Asian carp and other invasive species. More... -
The project aims to collect digital aspects of Great Lakes environmental history in one place. The web-based tool intends to make research and learning about the area more efficient. More...
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Bitter temperatures have caused large surface areas of the Great Lakes and many rivers to freeze. That creates a barrier between diving ducks and their preferred food supplies of aquatic plants, mollusks and small fish. More...
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Called the Lakefront Gateway Plaza, the urban design project promises to refashion and make more coherent a stretch of lakefront in and around existing cultural structures. More...
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The Grand Portage National Monument is a former fur trading site full of conifers, wetlands and beaver dams - a history and landscape that may be behind the toxic mercury loads in the monument's streams. More...
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The recent plight of a well-known lake freighter, and satellite images that show the Great Lakes once again almost entirely covered in ice, are causing worry in the Great Lakes shipping industry about the prospects of another difficult spring. More...
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An icebreaker originally scheduled to arrive on Lake Erie today will now be here later this week, officials said this morning. More...
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West Michigan officials are ready to spend $125,000 to study the best way to develop the Port of Muskegon. More...
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An 875-square-mile area of Lake Michigan off the Wisconsin coast could become the Great Lakes' second National Marine Sanctuary. More...
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GLIN's March Site of the Month is Asian Carp Canada, a new, comprehensive website on Asian carps created by the Invasive Species Centre and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. The site provides information on all aspects of Asian carps, including the most recent prevention, warning, response and research efforts. More...
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More than 180 invasive species have adopted the Great Lakes ecosystem as their home. Across the basin, people are working together to mitigate and reverse, when possible, the damage caused by invasive species. More...
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Satellite pictures taken over the weekend are the clearest Great Lakes ice cover images yet, showing the extent to which the lakes have frozen this season. More...
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We're wrapping up the last days of National Invasive Species Awareness Week for 2015. More than 180 invasive species have adopted the Great Lakes ecosystem as their home. More...
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Vessels entering the Great Lakes through the St. Lawrence Seaway would have to flush their ballast water while still at sea -- reducing the likelihood of bringing invasive species into the Lakes -- under a measure approved by a Senate committee. More...
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The outlook is not good for the fish fishermen chase in Lake Michigan. That's the biggest takeaway from the Lake Michigan informational meeting Thursday night at the Illinois Department of Natural Resources offices in Des Plaines. More...
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The company that promised a huge mine in northern Wisconsin announced that it was dropping the controversial project because it is not feasible. More...
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Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015, Michigan had clear skies when the satellite took the latest pictures. So it yielded the best look from high in space so far this winter. More...
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Niagara Falls, the world's most famous waterfall, apparently frozen in place, but here's a brief explanation of what really happens when the mighty Niagara River appears to form a crystalline cascade. More...
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Engineers were drilling holes off the shore of Lake Superior in Ashland, Wis. to collect lakebed samples where a permanent breakwater could be installed. More...