News
-
Posts
16,064 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Store
Gallery
Everything posted by News
-
Fishing at Lake Erie's Port Dover puts one in reach of easy-to-catch perch, the pier lighthouse and the Harbour Museum, full of Great Lakes shipping history. More...
-
With its growing number of wineries, southwest Michigan is successfully combining two of the state's largest industries: agriculture and tourism. More...
-
Canadians have just over 12 years left to reverse the damage to our environment if we are to save it, says the mayor of The Blue Mountains. More...
-
After several days of intense criticism from opponents of its new wastewater permit, BP officials announced Wednesday that they are willing to take another look at what can be done to reduce pollution at its reconfigured refinery. More...
-
The City of Chicago joined the fight Wednesday to stop the BP refinery in Whiting, Ind., from dumping significantly more ammonia and industrial sludge into Lake Michigan. More...
-
A $5-million investment by the Ontario government will leverage at least double that amount to help preserve ecologically sensitive lands, Natural Resources Minister David Ramsay says. More...
-
The city of Beaconsfield received a $5,000 (U.S.) prize for its Sump Pump Patrol. The award was presented during the fourth annual meeting of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative in Grand Rapids, Mich., last week. More...
-
The scenic inland waterways of Northern Michigan will be chronicled on the next two episodes of Michigan Out-of-Doors, starting tonight. More...
-
After becoming so badly polluted it was labeled a dead lake in the 1960s, few would have imagined the waters of Lake Erie would one day be compared to the vibrant hues of the Caribbean. More...
-
The Welland Canal, connecting lakes Ontario and Erie, was an early driver of Canada's economy. It opened up the Great Lakes to ocean travel, creating business opportunities in the country's interior that otherwise never would have existed. More...
-
A governor's working group on protecting the Great Lakes from harmful water withdrawals should have provided public notice of its meeting Tuesday attended by at least 15 public officials and water experts who convened in Madison, state Sen. Mary A. Lazich said. More...
-
The Sustainable Michigan Endowed Project provides a venue for ongoing scholarly reflection and critique on the sustainability of Michigan, as well as seed grants for sustainability research from a Michigan state-level perspective. More...
-
Great Lakes lawmakers urged federal regulators to block an Indiana BP refinery from dumping more ammonia and industrial sludge into Lake Michigan. More...
-
Congressional testimony on the nations waters will include a proposed change to the Clean Water Act, restoring federal protection to non-navigable wetlands and streams. More...
-
Cella beetles, tiny beetles that eat only purple loosestrife, an invasive wetland plant, will be released in areas where the plant has a stronghold. More...
-
Lake Superior's Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is the 11th park to become a "climate-friendly park" in a project shared by the EPA and National Park Service. More...
-
Canadian Environment Minister John Baird would have to come up with $30 million to help clean up the Hamilton Harbor dead zone caused by coal tar deposits. More...
-
Environmental and public interest groups are calling on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District to do more to clean up the regions wastewater. More...
-
High E. coli counts indicate unhealthy water and the need to improve policies that safeguard Grand Traverse Bay and the people who use it. More...
-
If New Berlin or Waukesha can buy Lake Michigan water for use outside the basin, then who could stop Arizona from building pipelines from Lake Superior? More...
-
WDNR officials will not be stocking any fish this year from hatcheries that tested positive for the fish disease VHS, resulting in thousands of unusable fish. More...
-
A wood-boring insect that kills pine trees and also has turned up in New York, Pennsylvania and Ontario has been detected in Michigan, according to officials. More...
-
Congress should support legislation increasing fines for sewage-dumping cities in order to hold Great Lakes polluters properly accountable. More...
-
The Bay City State Recreation Area shores are now fouled by a thick layer of stinky, washed-up algae, where reports have warned of E. coli bacteria. More...
-
A grant will fund soil testing in the Rock Creek watershed to study the problem of increasing phosphorous levels in the creek, which flows into Lake Erie. More...