Tag: lakes
Great Lakes water level update: What the Army Corps says about the lakes in August
Three of the Great Lakes are below their long-term averages through July, according to recent data, but the lower lakes, Erie and Ontario, are showing higher water levels than average. […]
Erie in the dark: Michigan teens swim all the Great Lakes in one day
Eleven Michigan teenagers from the Grand Rapids Triathlon Club successfully completed swimming in each of the Great Lakes in 24 hours, beginning in Lake Erie and ending in Lake Superior. […]
Swimming across Whitefish Bay to remember the Edmund Fitzgerald
Traverse City’s Lisa Kohler participated in the open water swim aimed at symbolically finishing the journey of the freighter, which sank in 1975.
Cyanobacteria is making a home in the warming waters of Lake Superior’s watershed
Long a threat to southern Ontario lakes, climate change is allowing cyanobacteria -or blue-green algae- to thrive in even the coldest of the Great Lakes, Lake Superior.
Michigan regulators to hear arguments on restricting factory farm pollution
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy is holding a public hearing to discuss a contested permit that regulates manure runoff….