Beaches

Looking for the most unique microbrewery in southern Ontario? Search the woods of Essex County.

By Julia Belden
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy and governor are marking Michigan’s first Microplastics Awareness Week. Scientists are now finding microplastics in the human body but don’t know their long-term effects.

The post Michigan launches first annual Microplastics Awareness Week first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.

The state of Michigan’s budget includes notable investments in conservation and restoration. Highlights include waterfront land conservation and funding to support an effort to reintroduce Arctic grayling to select rivers […]

By Eric Freedman 

 The Michigan Court of Appeals has cleared the city of South Haven of liability in the 2020 drowning of an 18-year-old swimmer at a public beach on the Lake Michigan coast.

The post Michigan court clears South Haven in beach drowning suit  first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.

During their Sept. 13 meeting, For Our Youth members learned to make salsa and about microplastics found in Lake Huron.

On Saturday, the Alliance for the Great Lakes hosted its Adopt-a-Beach event as part of an international coastal cleanup. Around 2,000 of those volunteers worked to clean up the Great […]

When Americans think of our coastlines, most picture the beaches of the Atlantic, the Pacific or the Gulf. But the Great Lakes are America’s fourth coast — a 2,300-mile expanse. […]

Manistee, a Northern Michigan beach town, is looking to make its award-winning beaches even better. Read the full story by MLive.

In one of the most polluted parts of Lake Michigan, whitefish are thriving. Some people wonder if we should try to replicate that environment elsewhere to save the iconic species. But that could mean doing something untested and controversial.

Visitors sometimes leave stuff behind at Great Lakes beaches. One of the most common pieces of plastic trash found are cigarette butts. Read the full story by Michigan Public Radio.

Cigarette butts are one of the most common kind of plastic pollution found on Great Lakes beaches.

But Michigan's lack of statewide septic regulations makes dealing with it a little more complicated. Efforts in Lansing to establish a septic code have fallen short, but there are bills currently in legislative committees that would deal with the issue. The state currently relies on county and local governments to create and enforce their own regulations.