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Ontario's Environmental Commissioner and the Director of Pollution Probe's water program kicked off a cross-province tour in Kingston Tuesday night, where they asked some 50 people in attendance what their vision was for the lakes and what worries they had about them. More...
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This site provides up to date information concerning the Coast Guard's 34 proposed weapons training areas in the Great Lakes Region. It offers background information, maps of the proposed zones, links to view public submissions to the Federal Docket and much more. More...
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The St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences was established in Cornwall, Ontario, in 1994. Since then, it has become a renowned environmental research and science education center with a focus on freshwater ecosystems. More...
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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources Trust Fund Board is considering the purchase of lakefront acreage despite the fact that it was once home to a nuclear plant and contains buried nuclear waste. More...
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The Great Lakes are a vital natural resource in the region, and yet, we dump an estimated 24 billion gallons of untreated sewage into the lakes each year. More...
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A surveillance aircraft designed to track tankers and detect nocturnal waste dumping will patrol the Atlantic coastal region as well as the Great Lakes. More...
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Shipping isn't the economic mainstay it used to be, but the Port of Buffalo in Lackawanna is seeing a dramatic rise in cargo - which quadrupled to 200,000 metric tons last year. More...
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Two developments along Buffalo's waterfront intended to stimulate economic development by improving access to the river and existing attractions will receive $959,100 in funding from New York state. More...
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Meijer has partnered with the Nature Conservancy to discourage invasive plants and to protect Lake Michigan's shoreline. Starting next spring, it will also help educate shopped about the benefits of buying non-invasive species. More...
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed taking the wolf off the endangered species list in portions of the Great Lakes region, removing much of the protections that have allowed it to flourish. More...
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Ohio's commercial fishermen are in hot water this week as committees in both the Ohio House and Senate wrestle with legislation to buy out the Lake Erie industry. More...
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The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is considering two options for a taconite's proposal to pump more that 7 million gallons of treated wastewater into the St. Louis River, one that would involve monitoring and one that would not. More...
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The explosion in the creation of better and more complicated nanomaterials is moving far ahead of research on such materials' environmental safety, leaving many to wonder about their potential effects on human health and the environment. More...