As the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal approaches on October 26 in New York, organizers are seeking to temper the celebration with an acknowledgment of the waterway’s displacement of […]
As part of a court case filed by environmental advocacy groups, The Campbell’s Company recently admitted to violating the Clean Water Act more than 5,000 times from 2018 to 2024 […]
Thunder Bay, Ontario, is joining the first-ever Great Lakes Coastal Cleanup on September 28, World Rivers Day. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes piping plovers, a rare shorebird species endemic to the Great Lakes basin, are experiencing a remarkable resurgence in northern Michigan. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Traverse […]
City council members are demanding accountability after a chemical spill from Lubrizol’s Avon Lake, Ohio, facility released 6,600 gallons of diluted polyurethane into Powdermaker Creek. Read the full story by […]
Wisconsin Congressman Tom Tiffany reintroduced the Apostle Islands National Park and Preserve Act this month, which aims to designate Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Wisconsin as a National Park. Read […]
The Riveredge Nature Center in Saukville, Wisconsin, has raised hundreds of lake sturgeon that will soon be released in Lake Michigan. In partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, […]
In terms of popular fascination, few shipwrecks compare to the foundering of the Edmund Fitzgerald in a 1975 Lake Superior storm, with the loss of its entire 29-person crew. The […]
The Lake Michigan car ferry, S.S. Badger, crashed into a docked ship last week when its engines didn’t respond. The engines are in working order despite this anomaly, but the […]
After the U.S. Coast Guard closed its Grand Marais, Minnesota, station in 2022, the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa launched what’s believed to be the first Indigenous-led coast […]
The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s $3 billion ‘Project Clean Lake’ has passed the halfway point, with billions of gallons of sewage already kept out of Lake Erie. When completed, […]