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Several environmental groups Friday called on Michigan lawmakers to strengthen the state's water withdrawal law to prevent water bottling companies from harming trout streams. More...
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The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is considering a ban on the transport of 120 species of fish found in the Lake Erie watershed. More...
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After weeks of unseasonably warm temperatures, the cold ushered in with an arctic air mass last week finally provided the temperatures needed to freeze Lake St. Clair and its tributaries to allow anglers to head out onto the ice. More...
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Deer outnumber people in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and so the guns are back for a special limited-edition hunting season, involving a small handful of sharpshooters hired to reduce the deer herd. More...
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Construction of a new Toledo ship repair building has been put on hold by what is being described as an administrative foul-up. More...
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A recent study found that human waste is leaking into the storm sewer system, causing concern for those worried about water quality in southeastern Wisconsin. More...
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The Great Lakes Environmental Indicators Project is a research effort to develop an integrated set of environmental indicators that can be used to assess the condition of the coastal margins of the Great Lakes. More...
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The threat of the emerald ash borer has prompted the Dept. of Agriculture to add ash tree seeds to a preservation vault to protect against complete extinction. More...
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The Natural Resources Defense Council has come to the Great Lakes region because of its important role in national energy and environmental issues. More...
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Randle Reef is a pollution hot spot where toxic coal tar is mixed with mud on the bottom of Hamilton Harbour, but there is debate as to who is responsible. More...
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A $1 million dollar federal grant and private donations will fund the preservation of the Mink River estuary, which looks almost as it did more than a century ago. More...
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Research suggests there's enough inland sand to meet industry needs and spare the remaining coastal dunes, which are home to a unique mixture of animals and plants. More...
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A perch fishery is on the rebound, and biologists think the reason is population control on cormorants - the big, black diving birds that feast on the fish. More...
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Another threat to the Great Lakes fishery took a big step closer to home last week. This time it's a virus, a fish virus called viral hemorrhagic septicemia, or VHS, a disease that poses no threat to humans but causes infected fish to bleed to death. More...
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It's the middle of winter and you're craving some fresh, juicy strawberries. For locally grown strawberries, you have to wait till June if you live in the Midwest. But that's starting to change. More...
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A Brownstown Township man has been named in a federal indictment of a Dearborn waste-treatment facility on charges related to the discharge of untreated waste into the Detroit and Rouge rivers. More...
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The National Water Information System (NWIS) is a comprehensive and distributed application that supports the acquisition, processing, and long-term storage of water data. NWISWeb serves as the publicly available portal to a geographically seamless set of much of the water data maintained within NWIS. More...
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The deadly fish disease, viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS), has spread to lake whitefish, walleyes and Chinook salmon in the Cheboygan area. More...
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An auditor's report says a Minnesota state agency has inadequately managed watershed districts, which often suffered from alternating chaos and inactivity. More...
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The limited winter precipitation in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota may just be an unusual fluke, but signs point to it also being a symptom of global warming. More...
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Liquid manure rules have been modified for Wisconsin farms to help minimize harmful runoff into Lake Michigan tributaries and preserve water quality. More...
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A wind energy plan for Calumet and Marshfield will bring 88 turbines to a 10,600-acre wind farm intended to generate power for around 45,000 homes. More...
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Sharpshooters are helping to thin out herds of white-tail deer in which chronic wasting disease, a damaging brain disease, has been identified. More...
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Air quality along the eastern Wisconsin lakeshore has recently improved, but the area may not be ready to loosen industry ozone regulations. More...
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This section of GLIN offers useful information for spending time in the Great Lakes region throughout the season. Also check GLIN: Skiing and Snowboarding in the Great Lakes Region and GLIN: Snowmobiling in the Great Lakes region. More...