Nature Scrapbook: Least chipmunk

Cottage Life
Nature Scrapbook: Least chipmunk

Though tiny and secretive, the least chipmunk is renowned as a bold campground raider. Inhabiting sunlit open forests and brushy clearings from northwestern Quebec and central Ontario to the Yukon, … Continued

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Pearson: New year requires us to redirect our future

The London Free Press
Pearson: New year requires us to redirect our future
Let's ask ourselves what kind of country we want to become

Flanagan: AI dominates 2025’s words of the year

The London Free Press
Flanagan: AI dominates 2025’s words of the year
Artificial intelligence (AI) played a huge role in our offices, social media feeds, music and film, and now – dictionaries

Growing Concerns: Look for ways to shelter birds during winter

The London Free Press
Growing Concerns: Look for ways to shelter birds during winter
In return, birds will help you all summer with your insect control in the garden

ODNR releases hatch data for walleye, yellow perch

Great Lakes Commission
ODNR releases hatch data for walleye, yellow perch
Officials with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources said its 2025 walleye trawl survey data found 128 walleye per hectare in Lake Erie’s western basin. This ranks as the sixth […]

Federal judge blocks Whitmer from shutting down submerged Great Lakes pipeline

Great Lakes Commission
Federal judge blocks Whitmer from shutting down submerged Great Lakes pipeline
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s attempt to shut down a pipeline segment called Line 5 – which runs beneath a channel linking two of the […]

Final step in Lake Michigan water project near Buffalo Grove underway

Great Lakes Commission
Final step in Lake Michigan water project near Buffalo Grove underway
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has approved the changeover to Lake Michigan water for the Pekara, Inverrary and Horatio Gardens neighborhoods near Buffalo Grove. The final step in the process, […]

Data center is threat to Saline River, residents say in wetlands hearing

Great Lakes Commission
Data center is threat to Saline River, residents say in wetlands hearing
Michigan environmental regulators held a hearing Thursday night on a proposed permit to disturb 10 acres of wetlands for a $7 billion Oracle and OpenAI data center in Saline Township. […]

Ontario Place construction could dump sewage in lake, creating a ‘preventable public health crisis’: doctor

Great Lakes Commission
Ontario Place construction could dump sewage in lake, creating a ‘preventable public health crisis’: doctor
Advocates, local politicians and a Toronto doctor are raising environmental concerns about the provincial government’s redevelopment of Ontario Place in Toronto, with some warning the plans could involve dumping sewage […]

Sturgeon may aid in Duluth Aquarium’s resurging popularity

Great Lakes Commission
Sturgeon may aid in Duluth Aquarium’s resurging popularity
The Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth, Minnesota, is laying plans to work as a partner in an effort to restore lake sturgeon to the St. Louis River, a waterway that […]

New bill would gut protections of Clean Water Act in name of growth

Great Lakes Commission
New bill would gut protections of Clean Water Act in name of growth
Environmental groups warn that the PERMIT Act – passed on Dec. 10 in the U.S. House – could significantly alter how the Clean Water Act is implemented. Among the proposed […]

Data centers could dispose of water in Ohio lakes if state EPA approves

Great Lakes Commission
Data centers could dispose of water in Ohio lakes if state EPA approves
As Ohio’s data center boom continues, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is considering a permit to allow new data centers without access to central sewerage systems to dispose of water […]