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Flush with success after efficient plumbing fixtures cut water use at Waukesha City Hall by as much as 25 percent, a conservation group wants to find a hotel and a home in the metropolitan area to replicate its pilot program's accomplishment. More...
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The enhanced GLASS database includes information on the status, locations, schedules and points of contact for U.S. and Canadian science vessels, as well as public, private and retired research/educational vessels. More...
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The Lake Erie Grape Belt is now an official heritage area and the first-ever agricultural heritage area in New York state. More...
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Calls for minor and major changes to the draft plan for the Niagara River Greenway were aired during a public hearing held at Conference Center Niagara Falls on Tuesday evening. A New York state law signed in 2004 calls for the creation of an interconnected system of sites along the Niagara River from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. More...
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It’s beginning to look like King City, just north or Toronto, will be getting its water by pipe from Lake Ontario. More...
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Supermarkets throughout the Chicago area are routinely selling seafood highly contaminated with mercury, a toxic metal that can cause learning disabilities in children and neurological problems in adults. More...
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After more than 160 years, the twin masts of the Milan still stand erect — all the more remarkable because the commercial sailing ship sits in the dark depths of Lake Ontario. More...
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There is a torrent of opposition across the region to the City of New Berlin's request to pump Lake Michigan water out of the Great Lakes watershed, but that doesn't mean Wisconsin will necessarily heed it. More...
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A joint federal, state and local project aims to remove more than 130,000 cubic yards of sediment from the Grand Calumet River and return the waterway to a more natural ecosystem. More...
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Hundreds of Canadian scientists are calling on the federal government to do more to protect citizens from a growing pollution problem that threatens human health. More...
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Some Native American tribes are raising concerns about climate change. More...
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With rough weather approaching, the U.S. Coast Guard was forced to temporarily call off cleanup efforts early Monday afternoon where a Duluth-based tugboat is beached about 21 miles east of Grand Marais, Mich. More...
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Nearly 18,000 World War II Naval aviators learned to land their planes on aircraft carriers stationed at Navy Pier. Author and historian Paul G. Somers has chronicled the history of those training exercises in his book, "Lake Michigan's Aircraft Carriers." More...
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The Coast Guard's decision to conduct gunnery practice on Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes was not a well-considered plan. It should be scaled back. More...
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Earthworms are not native to the Great Lakes Region and the current population is slowly changing the face of our native forests. Great Lakes Worm Watch provides tools and resources for citizens to actively contribute to a database documenting the distributions of exotic earthworms and their impacts across the region. More...
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One Ohio legislator has temporarily dammed up a bill that would prevent the siphoning of Great Lakes water. More...
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Since most waterways can't produce enough fish to keep up with fishing demand, for more than 100 years states around the nation have been stocking the water with fish. More...
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Indianapolis' logistic experts are trying to figure out how to get more railroad freight to head directly there instead of passing through Chicago. More...
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They surf in Cleveland because they must. They surf with two-inch icicles clinging to their wet suits, through stinging hail and overpowering wind. More...
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More than two years after Congress approved spending money for an enhanced water-monitoring system along the St. Clair River, water-treatment plants still are waiting for the equipment to arrive. More...
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A limited buyout of Ohio's remnant Lake Erie commercial fishing industry, one which would penalize flagrant violators but permit continued fishing by compliant netters, is being proposed in the waning days of the current session of the Ohio General Assembly. More...
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The US Environmental Protection Agency will conduct an extensive three-year study on the health of the nation's lakes. More...
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Formidable opposition is growing to the US Coast Guard's plan to stage machine-gun target practice in the Great Lakes. More...
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Ontario Nature is celebrating 75 years of dedicated conservation work. Ontario Nature protects and restores natural habitats through research, education and conservation, connecting thousands of individuals and communities with nature. More...
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The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw returned to port Friday, bearing a coating of ice on its bow and a foredeck filled to capacity with navigation buoys and associated hardware. More...