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Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet of Michigan celebrated the bipartisan American Water Stewardship Act after it passed the U.S. House. This allows reauthorization of funds for several regional water quality programs […]
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A meteor shower that has caused fireballs across the U.S. in recent days spurred another round of such sightings early Thursday in southern Michigan. Read the full story by CBS […]
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The “living” sand dune along Lake Michigan has buried beach parking lot and infrastructure within Indiana Dunes National Park. Annually the dune sand moves about five to ten feet toward […]
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By Justin Fox Clausen
Two insects are under consideration as Michigan's official state insect: the stonefly and, more recently, the Huron River leafhopper. The state is one of two in the country without an official insect.
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Between the U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards, 11 ice-breaking ships operate on the Great Lakes. The U.S. supplies nine of them of which 2 are down for repair and will […]
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The boiler from the 1914 shipwrecked Silver Spray remains just offshore of Chicago in the Morgan Shoal, the ancient shallow bedrock in Lake Michigan. Chicago residents and advocates fear an […]
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This year a very thin ice bridge formed on Lake Superior between Michigan’s remote Isle Royale and the mainland, but the Isle Royale wolf and moose study, now entering its […]
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Winter maintenance at the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, is wrapping up as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers prepares to mark the start of the 2026 Great […]
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Fisheries experts from Ohio, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania and the province of Ontario will gather for the annual Lake Erie Committee meetings of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission to […]
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An iconic Lake Michigan lighthouse, the Big Sable Point Lighthouse in Mason County, Michigan, could be restored two years earlier than expected due to the unanticipated speed with which the […]
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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) surveys the diverse and important Great Lakes fisheries every year between April and November. Surveying for 2025 has concluded, and DNR fisheries biologists […]
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No matter the season, organizations across the Great Lakes region are fighting to keep waterways garbage-free.
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