More land at the tip of Ontario’s Bruce Peninsula has been protected as a nature reserve, with two levels of government providing funding to buy the approximately one kilometre section of […]
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A groundwater report made public by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection indicates contamination from the shuttered Erie Coke site is migrating toward Lake Erie. Read the full story by WJET-TV […]
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Some passengers on a cruise ship are getting their first taste of the U.P. Tuesday morning, Victory Cruise Lines’ Victory II docked at Lower Harbor in Marquette around 6:30 a.m. Read […]
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In Michigan this week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will begin applying lampricides to the Cass River in Tuscola and Saginaw counties to kill sea lamprey larvae burrowed in […]
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Great Lakes piping plovers are getting busy replenishing the species’ numbers. With 82 pairs confirmed, conservation officials stated this year is a record-breaking nesting season for the federally endangered shorebird. […]
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Beaches are tested regularly in Michigan by the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy and their statuses are updated frequently. Over Father’s Day weekend beaches in Chippewa and Muskegon […]
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A gold pocket watch connects a Lake Michigan beach town to an English port town. It’s a homecoming 165 years in the making, weaving invisible strings between a British parliament […]
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Ann Arbor, Michigan – Organizations across the region will come together to educate the public about aquatic invasive species (AIS) during the seventh annual Great
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A 35-inch, 16-pound lake trout caught by an angler in 2023 out of the port of Sheboygan, Wisconsin contained a coded wire tag that was the oldest on record according […]
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Members of the Ho-Chunk Nation paddled from Green Bay to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in a dugout canoe to raise awareness of the Tribe’s historic ties to the region. Read the full […]
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Experts searching for plane wreckage in Michigan’s Lake Superior found logs and rocks on the bottom but no debris from an aircraft that crashed nearly 60 years ago carrying three […]
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A Northern Michigan fish company is joining forces with a group of leaders from around the Great Lakes to tackle fish waste by finding innovative ways to fully utilize each […]