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About 60 first responders from a score of Chicago suburbs got an inside look, literally, at the type of railroad car used to haul thousands of gallons of crude oil, ethanol and other potentially hazardous materials through their communities each day. More...
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A 200 foot barge which sank in the Chicago River in mid-October has now been moved from its resting place between Randolph and Lake Street. More...
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More than three months after Toledo's, Ohio, water crisis, an investigation shows that efforts to address the problem of toxin-producing Lake Erie algae still lack a clear focus and any enforceable accountability. More...
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Detroit Public Television will be recording and live streaming Great Lakes Now: The 2014 Toxic Algae Crisis from 2-2:30 p.m. on Wed. Nov. 11. Discussion will center on the effects of algae on the Great Lakes and how we can prevent a large algae crisis from happening again. More...
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It was Nov. 10, 1975, when the Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared in the waters of Lake Superior during a severe storm, taking 29 lives with it and after nearly 40 years the story of the ship continues to intrigue, with some saying its legend is second only to the Titanic. More...
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The Ohio Wildlife Council has clamped down a bit on commercial fishing nets at its recent meeting. More...
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The Illumination Board has issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to look at new lighting technology and capabilities for improving the overall effect on waters of Niagara Falls. More...
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Ohio's environmental regulators and a federal agency that maintains Lake Erie's shipping channels have started talking about new ways to get rid of all the sediment that is dredged out of the Cuyahoga River. More...
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Land area within three miles of the Lake Huron and Saginaw Bay shorelines deserves to be protected from wind energy development, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a letter addressed to county commissioners. More...
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U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo, Ohio) on Thursday launched the citizen-sampling brigade for western Lake Erie waterways. More...
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A train derailed Thursday following a suspected landslide in eastern Quèbec, spilling diesel fuel into a local river. More...
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The latest issue of NOAA's Marine Protected Areas Center newsletter, Marine Protected Areas Connections, is now available online. The newsletter features information about the public comment period for the newly updated Framework for the National System of Marine Protected Areas of the United States of America. More...
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Visitors of Toledo, Ohio, contribute six billion dollars to the area economy. One popular attraction in the area is the National Museum of the Great Lakes. More...
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The dangerous early days of the war along the shores of Lake Erie are recalled in a War of 1812 historical marker recently erected in Huron, Ohio. More...
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There is no connection between exposure to the wind turbine noise and health effects, says a new comprehensive Health Canada study, but some in the Great Lakes region are still concerned. More...
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U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) on Thursday launched the citizen-sampling brigade for western Lake Erie waterways. More...
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It's the first time in years that a new wind farm has been proposed near the Lake Ontario shoreline in western New York. Other proposals never came to fruition. More...
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A train derailed Thursday following a suspected landslide in eastern Quèbec, spilling diesel fuel into a local river. The train's sole conductor was missing. More...
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Cottrellville Township, Mich., is now part of the county-wide effort to restore the St. Clair River shoreline. More...
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Ontario is targeting the Asian carp and ash borer beetle by reintroducing its Invasive Species Act first proposed last February but killed off by the spring election. More...
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The National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center is forecasting a drier-than-average winter for the duration of December, January and February, though there is nothing to suggest yet whether or not temperatures will be higher or lower than normal. More...
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Little is known about bloody red shrimp, a new non-native species found this fall in Cayuga Lake, N.Y., but one thing is sure, it isn't edible. More...
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Industrial wind turbines are supposed to produce electricity. But they have also been producing lawsuits over issues such as noise and the associated negative health impacts they allegedly have on residents. More...
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The National Parks Service wrapped up summer initiatives for the $3.5 million cultural site restoration project on five of Lake Superior's Apostle Islands. More...
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Strong winds blew tree trunks, branches, tires, wooden pallets, ladders and other items across Lake Michigan beaches in Michigan and Indiana on Friday. More...