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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is making $2 million available to Ohio farmers who agree to plant cover crops this fall. More...

More than two dozen people took a two-hour look at the Maumee River and nearby facilities that impact its condition. The tour, hosted by the Lake Erie Waterkeeper, was especially important this year because of the growing algae bloom in Lake Erie. More...

While the city of Montreal, Quèbec says it's studying the idea of creating more beaches on its territory, sewage waste is dumped directly into the St. Lawrence River and the Rivire des Prairies after heavy rainfalls. More...

In Ontario, anglers taking part in this year's Salmon Spectacular in the Georgian Bay are not only finding a lot of fish, but also a dangerous fish predator called the sea lamprey. More...

The Prince Edward County Field Naturalists, a group fighting a controversial wind farm development south of Picton, Ontario, says its final appeal will be heard in December. More...

"Never say never," cautions Alan Steinman, Grand Valley State University's Annis Water Resources Institute director, "but given how big Lake Michigan is, it'd be unlikely we'd see any algae blooms." More...

Two U.S. Fish & Wildlife fisheries staffers visited Western New York waterways and did some extensive surveys of stream waters, searching for ammocetes, the early-stage larvae of sea lamprey, a dreaded aquatic invader. More...

Even though 80 percent of Lake Erie's water flows from the upper lakes, the cleaner water of the St. Clair River, which moves downstream through Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River, has not prevented harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie. More...

Lake Erie has an environmental split-personality: A relatively robust lake in terms of its general health and a simultaneous and perhaps worsening presence of harmful algal blooms. More...

During the second day of the 27th annual Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular, in Owen Sound, Ontario crowds gathered around a tank of live sea lamprey brought to the derby this year by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. More...

On Sept. 8, PROJECT: ICE, a documentary about the Great Lakes, will be screened at the Great Lakes Restoration Conference in Grand Rapids, Mich. The screening event will include a happy hour and a Q&A session with director Bill Kleinert and an informal afterglow with members of the production crew. Registration is required. More...

From the boat docks of Ohio State University's Stone Laboratory, practically a stone's throw from the party headquarters known as Put-in-Bay tiny green specs are in the early stages of bunching up and floating on Lake Erie's surface. It's been an all-too-familiar sight to Great Lakes scientists who use that lab, the oldest freshwater field station in the United States, since 1995. More...

The Waukegan City Council approved the purchase of $30,000 worth of new trees to plant on parkways and other public areas, replacing trees doomed by the emerald ash borer. This work is part of a reforestation effort funded by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and coordinated locally by the Waukegan Park District. More...

All day and all night, every single minute, a crane lifts about 10 tons of soil from the bottom of the Buffalo River, N.Y. Sometimes it digs 25 feet down into the muck and pulls up soil contaminated with PCBs, lead and mercury, which is hauled away for storage at the old Bethlehem Steel site. More...

John Pampu, CEO of Big Jon Sports in Interlochen, Mich., has one warning for the businesses that rely on the Great Lakes fishing industry. "If this goes away, so does your millions of dollars," he said. More...

In Port Huron, Mich. the gate where the Black River Canal flows out of Lake Huron will be closed for two more days so the canal can be dredged. More...

In Port Huron, Mich. the gate where the Black River Canal flows out of Lake Huron will be closed for two more days so the canal can be dredged. More...

The Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation is looking for volunteers to help them monitor conditions along the shoreline. More...

Great Lakes-Our Water (GLOW) has unveiled stoptheinvasion.ca, focusing public attention on the issue of phragmites along lake shorelines. More...

Gogebic Taconite's mine proposal isn't the only topic the state's Chippewa tribes plan to discuss when they meet with the EPA this week, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is also on the agenda. More...

In Illinois, the Winnetka Village Council voted to ban the use of coal tar-based sealants. More...

We simply do not know if water levels will decline, increase, or stay approximately constant over the rest of this century. More...

The launch is designed to move up and down with fluctuations in water levels on the river. More...

Because water cycles through Lake Erie fairly rapidly, the blue-green algae that contaminated Toledo's water supply several weeks ago would disappear within several years. More...

A group of five friends who all have a passion for watersports and the preservation of the Great Lakes plan to paddle across Lake Michigan to raise money for the Alliance for the Great Lakes. More...