News
-
Posts
16,064 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Store
Gallery
Everything posted by News
-
On Tuesday, March 25, a Lake Erie Farm Forum will take place at the Ottawa County Fairgrounds in Ohio and discuss the current health of Lake Erie and ways to conserve and protect it. More...
-
As searchers continue to look for the Malaysia Airlines flight, there's an eerily similar mystery that's much closer to home -- the unsolved fate of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501, which crashed into Lake Michigan in 1950. More...
-
Four men walked from Glen Arbor, Mich., to North Manitou Island, a journey decades in the making. More...
-
There are spectacular ice caves along the Lake Superior shoreline, but there are amazing ice caves to explore in Northeastern Wisconsin too. More...
-
Hundreds of anglers have ventured out on a foot or so of Lake Superior ice to jig for lake trout in recent days and this is the first time in several years that they have found ice conditions they consider reasonably safe for foot travel. More...
-
After $475 million in its first year, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative has had an annual budget of roughly $300 million, but the President's Budget for 2015 proposes $275 million. More...
-
The harsh winter this year caused the death of many ducks and other waterfowl because they were not able to get to a decent food source. More...
-
The "Bodies on the Ice" effort brought people together in Washburn, WI to spell out a message they say is in defense of the area's surrounding water bodies. More...
-
This week U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the University of Toledo will receive $500,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency in order to help protect Lake Erie from the threat of invasive species like Asian carp. More...
-
A petition sent recently to the United States Coast Guard would allow river barges to operate on Lake Michigan's eastern shore as far north as Muskegon. More...
-
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is looking into reintroducing breeding populations of sturgeon to Lake Erie. More...
-
He said all three of Cliffs' Minnesota operations -- Hibbing Taconite, United Taconite and NorthShore Mining -- will be at virtually full capacity with stable employment in 2014. The company's Upper Michigan operations, Empire and Tilden, also will keep producing. More...
-
Research recently published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society by NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory scientists shows dramatic and unexpected changes in the seasonal water-level cycle of Lake Erie and in the Great Lakes regional water budget. More...
-
Ice cover on the Great Lakes is now the second highest on record at 91%, and scientists are warning we can expect the the vast ice cover that now blankets the lakes to have consequences for spring flooding and summer weather. More...
-
Critics were dismayed but not surprised by the National Energy Board's approval of a plan to increase the flow of oil through the Line 9 pipeline carrying crude across Toronto, Ont. More...
-
Many problematic septic systems were found in the first year of South Bruce Peninsula's septic re-inspection program in Owen Sound, Ont. More...
-
Ice cover on the Great Lakes is now the second highest on record at 91%, and scientists are warning we can expect the the vast ice cover that now blankets the lakes to have consequences for spring flooding and summer weather. More...
-
Critics were dismayed but not surprised by the National Energy Board's approval of a plan to increase the flow of oil through the Line 9 pipeline carrying crude across the Greater Toronto Area, Ont. More...
-
The Boating Industries Association of Upstate New York, and New York boat dealers and marina operators are optimistic about the 2014 boating season and taking advantage of trends to attract buyers of all ages and lifestyles. More...
-
Another month of snow, ice and freezing temperatures has led government experts to project water levels in the Great Lakes will rise more in the coming months than earlier estimated -- and possibly get one lake back to its historic average. More...
-
The vast Great Lakes ecosystem is historically home to 210 species of fish. An updated University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Fish of the Great Lakes poster is home to 35 species of fish, many suggested by Wisconsin residents who wanted to see their favorites immortalized. More...
-
This winter's heavy snow and massive ice cover will drive up the water levels of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron by 8 to 14 inches over the next six months, compared with the same time last year, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said. More...
-
Low lake levels and wood loss are causing some fish to binge until they run out of food, according to recent research. More...
-
Ice cover on Lake Michigan continues to expand, covering 92.2 percent of the lake -- close to a record. More...
-
How does all the winter salt runoff affect Lake Michigan's water? Is there really a wall of brine heading to Lake Michigan and, if so, should we be worried? More...