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The state of Michigan is exploring a new plan to resume dredging of the Platte River mouth at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) […]

To ensure the Great Lakes will be a sustainable source of clean water in the future, the National Science Foundation granted $160 million to a Chicago-based “innovation hub” to develop […]

Fueled by a strong El Niño, the lack of ice and mild winter in the Midwest could have negative implications for spring fish spawning, coastal erosion, and harmful algal blooms. […]

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ management crews have begun prescribed burning in marshes, wetlands, and pine barrens to remove dead vegetation, stimulate native plant growth, and provide fire-dependent species […]

Conservation groups and water policy experts feared that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year would create a patchwork of state wetland protections, threatening water quality in the Great Lakes […]

As of the morning of February 12, the Great Lakes have crossed the historic threshold and reached a record low of ice cover basin-wide. The measurement taken as of the […]

A study by Birds Canada shows wetland bird populations have increased along the Great Lakes coast over much of the past decade. Of the eighteen bird species counted as part […]

Researchers at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, examined fish consumption advisories for the upper St. Lawrence River issued by New York State, the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, and […]

When the Great Lakes have low ice cover for much of winter, it can lead to a lot of evaporation and lower lake levels, but that’s not necessarily the case […]

Midwest tribal leaders are challenging Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline that has already spilled more than a million gallons of oil since the first recorded leak in 1968. Now Enbridge wants […]