Great Lakes Commission
A 1965 ship’s engineer log preserved in the Algoma University archives is providing researchers at the university a rare window into Great Lakes water temperatures, creating a valuable historical baseline […]
Aboard the Lake Guardian, scientists search for clues about the Great Lakes’ health
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Data from Lake Guardian surveys help scientists and natural resource managers track how stressors like nutrient pollution, chemical contaminants, and invasive species affect the ecology of the Great Lakes over time. Read […]
Cleveland City Council to review Lake Erie water monitoring, utility system repair projects Monday
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Cleveland City Council members will review contracts for maintaining the city’s water and electric systems, including a proposal to put four water-quality monitoring buoys in Lake Erie. Read the full […]
Shifting sand is natural to Michigan’s dunes; how to cope is controversial
Great Lakes Commission
Michigan’s sand dunes face serious threats as climate change and environmental factors continue to evolve, as do the communities surrounding them. Read the full story by the Alpena News.
Michigan has spent nearly 10 years mapping PFAS. Now comes the hard part
Great Lakes Commission
To date, Michigan has collected a massive amount of environmental samples — water, soil, fish tissue and others — and identified about 350 sites where PFAS levels in groundwater exceeds […]
$6T Great Lakes shipping economy threatened by U.S.-Canada trade war
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Lakers have depended on a regional economy that moved in lockstep with Canada. Coal volumes have hit hard times, and U.S. tariffs have disrupted trade in iron ore. Adding to the uncertainty […]
Great Lakes ghost stories bring a chill to these 13 Michigan cities
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The Great Lakes and its shorelines keep secrets to mysteries that will never be solved. But a Michigan historian takes pride in unraveling the legends of shipwrecks, lighthouse keepers and […]
A border town’s drinking water hangs in the balance of a proposed U.S. mine
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Northwestern Ontario communities such as Fort Frances and Gakijiwanong Anishinaabe Nation are expressing concerns that a proposed mine in Minnesota could pollute their sources of drinking water. Read the full […]
Lake Huron town turns to grazing goats for eco-friendly attack on invasive species
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Goderich, Ontario, is utilizing a team of over 50 goats and 20 sheep to eat their way through invasive species, an alternative approach to mechanical or herbicide techniques so close […]
What fish eat can reveal changes in Lake Superior’s food web
Great Lakes Commission
A fish carcass that might otherwise be disposed of may instead help fisheries biologists with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources better understand Lake Superior’s ecosystem and dynamic food web. […]
Our lakes are changing, in ways scientists didn’t expect. What’s going on under the surface?
Cottage Life

Liz Favot remembers when she first saw the waters outside her cottage on Lake Nipissing, Ont., turn a murky green. It was in the summer of 2020. “This cottage is … Continued

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Ducks kept dying near a Chicago harbor. Wildlife officials suspect botulism.
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The Illinois Department of Natural Resources confirmed that it had received reports of dead mallard ducks in DuSable Harbor and picked up carcasses Aug. 21 for diagnostic testing. Advocates and […]