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Environmentalist David Suzuki criticized Canada for reconsidering enforcement of the Kyoto Protocol, and encouraged the country to continue environmental policies. More...

The S.S. Willis B. Boyer Museum Ship has been in the Maumee River for 20 years and is now seriously deteriorated due to Toledo's lack of funding. More...

The new Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw completed its first ice assist this week, east of the Round Island Passage in Lake Huron. More...

Military shipwrecks of the Great Lakes is the theme of the 2007 Great Lakes Underwater conference set for March 10 in Oswego. Topics this year include The Age of Fighting Under Sail on the Great Lakes, An Underwater Revolutionary War Battlefield and the NYS Underwater Blueway Trail. More...

Over the past decade or so, invasive-species control has become a hot-button issue. But some worry the anti-invasive attack is getting out of hand, targeting harmless species simply because they weren't here when the Mayflower arrived. More...

Great Lakes advocates hope that federal funding soon will flow into Illinois to complete a permanent Asian carp barrier on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. More...

Viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS) is a highly contagious and often fatal disease for fresh water fish in the Great Lakes. More...

Citing the precipitous drop in Lake Superior's water level, Edison Sault Electric Co. and Cloverland Electric Cooperative both indicated higher still electric rates may be the result. More...

Is invasive-species control getting ... well, out of control? More...

A movement is under way to protect the last undeveloped areas of the Niagara Escarpment in Lockport. More...

Plans to remove Tittabawassee River sediments found to have high levels of dioxin contamination are in motion. More...

Lake Express cross-lake ferry officials are approaching 2007 as a "make-a-profit" year. More...

Great Lakes contaminants aren't new, but many are only now being identified as threats. More...

Much of Minnesota is in a significant snow drought this winter. More...

Marquette, Mich., residents put a top priority on preserving public access and views of the waterfront, according to a new study. More...

On a single day last September, volunteers removed 4,530 cigarette butts from Pere Marquette Park beach on Lake Michigan. Some are hoping to start a community debate on the subject of banning smoking on city beaches. More...

The University of Toledo and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service have launched a GIS data site to assist the Western Lake Erie Basin Partnership in stewardship of the western Lake Erie basin natural resources. More...

Young Ohioans walking through the woods today likely will remember a different place when they stroll the same forest in 75 years. When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its report Feb. 2 in Paris, the world heard clearly that humans are causing global warming. More...

Three Wisconsin and Michigan forestry organizations have merged to form the Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association. The association would facilitate practice and promotion of sustainable forest management and aid an industry that continues to struggle under the weight of an ever-changing global economy and mismatched regulations. More...

When it comes to groundwater, what happens in western Waukesha County does not stay in western Waukesha County. The Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission is working on a landmark study that aims to define and explain the water resources and hydrology of the region and recommend ways to conserve and protect the quality and quantity of groundwater. More...

A Wisconsin fisherman recently speared a 102-pound, 72-inch sturgeon on Lake Winnebago. More...

Billy Schmidt is captain of the James J. Versluis, a Chicago Water Management Department tugboat that ferries maintenance crews miles out into the lake to six water-intake cribs. Most of the water used by Chicago and dozens of suburbs flows into these cribs, where it is piped to shore, filtered and treated, and pumped to all of us. More...

Ontario's environment commissioner says all cities need to find ways to conserve water, whether they're land-locked like Guelph or located on the Great Lakes. More...

The NOAA Great Lakes Ice Atlas is a national resource for those seeking information on Great Lakes ice cover climatology. It provides a benchmark of ice cover and ice cover variation of the Great Lakes for the period 1973-2002. Related information can be found at the National Snow and Ice Center and the Canadian Ice Service. More...

The Minnesota Environmental Partnership is a coalition of 79 Minnesota environmental and conservation organizations working together to protect and preserve Minnesota's precious natural environment. More...