Greenhouse growers would love to tap into Lake Erie directly for water, cutting development charges. Municipal officials say the move would also reduce strain on the municipal water system. Read […]
The Minnesota Court of Appeals handed environmental groups a win in their continuing legal fight against the expansion of a massive pond for mining waste three miles from Lake Superior. Their […]
The owners of a shuttered nuclear plant on the shores of Lake Michigan are still banking on its historic reopening later this year, despite the confusion of President Donald Trump’s […]
Michigan’s sturgeon fishing season on Black Lake set a record Saturday as the fastest ever, wrapping up in just 17 minutes. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Ohio State Representative Jon Cross proposed legislation to ban cities from dumping sewage into Lake Erie and impose stiff fines for violations. The move follows revelations that the City of […]
The U.S. Coast Guard has conducted 16 ice rescues on all of Lake Erie so far this year. Officials in Medina County, Ohio, have been training for ice rescues and […]
Hundreds of red-breasted mergansers have been found either dead or sick over the past few days along Lake Michigan in Chicago and into the northern suburbs. Officials suspect that highly […]
The Sable Point Lighthouse Keepers Association announced that Big Sable Point Lighthouse in Hamlin Township, Michigan, is tentatively scheduled to open on July 1. The iconic Lake Michigan lighthouse had […]
Photographer and one-man-documentary-crew, Daryl Granger, started telling the story of Port Dover, Ontario’s commercial fishery. After months of work, he released the award-winning two-hour documentary, Netting the Waters, which “sets […]
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The extreme cold is making for a fascinating look on Grand Traverse Bay at Traverse City, Michigan, as the surface temperature of the water and Arctic cold air interact and […]
One of the largest vessels to use the Port of Cleveland — the 1004-foot-long, 50-foot-tall James R. Barker — on Thursday found itself stuck in ice as it attempted to […]
Parts of Southwestern Ontario are losing more than two weeks of sub-zero days each winter due to climate change, a new report says. In London and Middlesex County, there are an average of nine additional above-freezing days each December to February, a trend that may lead to more ice storms and flooding, one renowned climate […]