Category: Great Lakes
‘The grand canyon’: Huge crater on Erie’s shore underlines erosion threat
With parts of the Lake Erie coast eroding at a pace of four metres or more a year – some of the highest rates in the Great Lakes – one group is appealing for federal funding to fight it. “We’re never going to solve coast erosion, but doing the technical work . . . associated […]
PHOTOS: Lake Erie, looking fierce
Lake Erie was looking fierce on Sunday as waves crashed around Port Stanley’s beach. Photos by LFP’s Mike Hensen mhensen@postmedia.com @MikeatLFPress
‘Plasticky’: What’s behind odd taste, smell in some London-area tap water?
If you live between south London and Lake Erie, you might think something’s wrong with your drinking water.
Descendants of Africa captain to visit site of shipwreck next year
Descendants of the captain who perished when his the Africa disappeared hauling coal from the United States to Owen Sound 128 years ago have been offered a chance to visit the site of the recently discovered shipwreck. Local filmmakers Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick discovered the shipwreck of the Africa on the bottom of Lake […]
Local filmmakers discover 128-year-old shipwreck while filming documentary on invasive mussels
Local filmmakers working on a documentary about invasive quagga mussels in the Great Lakes discovered what’s believed to be a wreck of a 128-year-old wooden steamship in Lake Huron. The discovery happened in June after Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick received a tip that scientists doing a fish study off Bruce Peninsula’s west coast noticed […]