Michigan’s growing data center industry is facing scrutiny over electricity costs, utility contracts, and local opposition. The debate has important implications for Great Lakes water resources because large facilities can […]
Michigan forestry and wildlife officials have applied for more than $1 million in grants to buy a combined 721 acres in the western Upper Peninsula to consolidate state ownership and […]
Michigan regulators granted Consumers Energy a final extension to negotiate the proposed sale of 13 hydroelectric dams. A settlement is due December 9, with a final regulatory decision potentially following […]
Minnesota-based 3M announced this week it will spend more than $7 billion over the next nine years to settle injury claims tied to PFAS, and hundreds of Wisconsin residents may […]
Michigan State University researchers have received a $1 million federal award to develop technology that captures nitrogen and phosphorus from agricultural runoff before it pollutes waterways. Read the full story […]
The first Gales of November are expected this week on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior with waves as high as 17 feet. Read the full story by MLive.
Torch Lake in Antrim County, Michigan, is part of the Elk River Chain of Lakes Watershed, which ultimately drains into Lake Michigan. A cleanup led by the U.S. EPA, Michigan […]
An angler from Menasha, Wisconsin, caught a record-breaking 9-pound, 11.3-ounce smallmouth bass in Green Bay, Wisconsin, surpassing a 76-year-old state record and highlighting the bay’s reputation as a premier smallmouth […]
Scientists are seeing early signs of progress in restoring Lake Erie’s lake sturgeon population, following reintroductions into the Cuyahoga and Sandusky rivers. The effort aims to rebuild a self-sustaining population […]
Invasive New Zealand mudsnails have been detected in Bear Creek, Kent County, marking their first known appearance in Michigan’s southern Lower Peninsula. Their rapid reproduction threatens native stream invertebrates and […]
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s research vessel Neil Armstrong is making its first-ever Great Lakes voyage to Lake Superior, where it will deploy underwater detector arrays to help scientists study […]

