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  1. At least seven tall ships, and possibly as many as 10, will appear at the 2016 Tall Ships Erie Festival, in Erie, Penn. More...
  2. According to the Michigan DNR, the salmon population in Lake Michigan has dropped about 75 percent from its peak in 2012. The numbers are not comforting but fishery managers say the agency is working to avoid a Lake Huron repeat. More...
  3. This week, the National Wildlife Federation announced a new Michigan film tour with documentary filmmaker Spencer Chumbley, whose film "Oil & Water" highlights the threat oil pipelines under the Straits of Mackinac pose to the Great Lakes. More...
  4. New York Sea Grant is hosting a free webinar series on the logistics of starting and managing the watercraft inspection component of a water-based stewardship program. The first webinar, Identification, Impact, Prevention & Control of Aquatic Invasive Species, is Oct. 29. Registration is required. More...
  5. A Canadian official said that he hopes his country's new elected leaders and the U.S. can work out an agreement on ballast water for Great Lakes ships. More...
  6. Deep sandstone aquifers that feed water supplies to parts of northeastern Illinois are at risk of becoming partially or completely depleted in the next 35 years, a new study at the Illinois State Water Survey suggests. More...
  7. The Town of Lakeshore is considering turning a functional investment in a new jetty at the mouth of Belle River into a recreational one that would extend 150 metres into Lake St. Clair. More...
  8. The 24 miles long Grand Calumet River, in Indiana, was once called the most polluted river in America, but through a Great Lakes Legacy Act partnership, a portion is now cleaned up after more than 315 acres of river, riverine marsh and adjacent habitat, has been restored. More...
  9. A northern Wisconsin tribe says an environmental firm it hired is recommending further study of army munitions barrels that were dumped into Lake Superior during the Cold War. More...
  10. Thanks to a $17.7 million rehabilitation of Docks C and D across the slip from the Clure terminal, the port of Duluth will feature a proper roll-on/roll-off dock, possibly as soon as later this fall. More...
  11. The U.S. Coast Guard is leading efforts to find a leak of what it believes is a petroleum-based substance coming from a sunken barge on the bottom of Lake Erie near the U.S.-Canadian border. More...
  12. A northern Wisconsin tribe says an environmental firm it hired is recommending further study of army munitions barrels that were dumped into Lake Superior during the Cold War. More...
  13. The danger of contamination of Toledo's water supply by toxic algae in Lake Erie appears over for the year. That's a relief. But the threat will return next year, and the time to prepare for that inevitability -- and to take broader measures to clean up the lake -- is now. More...
  14. Sustainable farming has taken root for wine grape growers and those who grow Concord and Niagara grapes for Welch's. More...
  15. The Muskegon lakeshore region is one of the best places in Michigan to see the fall colors. Nature's show tends to get a later start than other areas of the state, thanks to Lake Michigan, but the results are no less spectacular. More...
  16. We know the Erie Canal to be a pleasure boating wonder, an amazing waterway that has become a yacht highway great for tourists and history buffs. But remember, it was also one called the Ditch that Changed the Face of America. More...
  17. A twisted, gnarly old cedar tree has inspired centuries of wonder and mystery in far northeastern Minnesota. The solitary tree, which locals nicknamed, "The Witch Tree," has long been growing out of a rock on tribal land along the rugged shoreline of Lake Superior. More...
  18. Huron County's planning director and forest conservation officer have commented on an early draft of a bylaw in Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh, Ont., that would preserve trees along the Lake Huron Shoreline. More...
  19. Michigan lawmakers in Congress say the results of a new federal study illustrate the urgency to empower the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to do more to prevent Asian carp from infiltrating the Great Lakes. More...
  20. Some weird stuff is going on with trout and salmon this fall and anglers in Michigan's St. Joseph River are likely to suffer from it. More...
  21. For well over a decade, the Bad River Watershed Association has worked to provide baseline information about the water quality of the areas that make up the sources of the Bad River near Chequamegon Bay in Wisconsin. More...
  22. Every fall four-year-old Chinook salmon arduously work their way from Lake Ontario back into Spencer Creek in Hamilton, Ont., where they were born, to spawn and then promptly die - a delicate and fascinating life cycle that attracts nature lovers. More...
  23. The U.S. Army corps of Engineers is studying whether material dredged from the harbor in Erie, Pa., could be used to build up Presque Isle State Park's Gull Point. More...
  24. Home to the U.S. Steel Corp mill operations, Zug Island, along the border of Detroit, Mich., is silhouetted by smokestacks that regularly emit flames. But nature always finds a way, even on Zug Island. More...
  25. In Oswego, N.Y., the West Pierhead Lighthouse Restoration Project is seeking funding for renovation proposals this upcoming year. More...
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