This is the first “organization-led” land purchase in the conservancy’s more than 30-year history.
Could the once-ambitious plan to install wind turbines on Lake Erie be resurrected? It’s possible, local wind power advocates believe, now that a Maryland company has taken control of a […]
A small community just east of London is in a position to pay off a Cold War-era submarine, a bad debt that’s hung over it for a decade, its top administrative official says. The Municipality of Bayham, which sits on the shore of Lake Erie in Elgin County and has 7,000 residents, was saddled with […]
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This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The proposed Copperwood Mine in the Upper Peninsula has received a new air quality permit from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, allowing the project to continue moving forward. Public comment on the controversial project […]
Winds off the Great Lakes into the U.S. snow belts have been more potent than normal, according to a NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory analysis. Lake Ontario is still mostly ice […]
According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, current Lake Michigan-Huron levels are 7-9 inches below the long-term average and 10-13 inches below last year’s levels. Read the full story […]
The Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is in a holding pattern after the mass layoff of national park staff, part of the Trump administration’s effort to dramatically cut the federal workforce. […]
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Great Lakes sailors can trace their roots to a variety of countries, including Yemen.
Ice fishing has been good this season, but anglers on the ice targeting walleye or other fish may unexpectedly find themselves with a lake sturgeon on the line. The Michigan […]
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Seasonal federal workers help control the eel-like, parasitic fish each year.
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The Michigan Court of Appeals has upheld a permit for Enbridge Energy’s plan to bury an oil pipeline beneath the environmentally sensitive Straits of Mackinac.