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A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service assessment crew will survey the Muskegon River in Muskegon County between July 30 and Aug. 6 to determine how many sea lampreys are in the river. More...

On the dark night of October 7, 1902, the schooner, Ann Maria, sunk just off Kincardine's harbour, weighed down by a load of coal from a Lake Erie port for the Kincardine salt block. More...

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is calling for the Environmental Protection Agency to add microbeads to their list of Great Lakes contaminants. If added, the EPA would likely address the problem in their upcoming action plan. A move that Save The River is thankful for. More...

Michiganders love to boast they live in the Great Lakes State, but how many of you have actually visited one lately? More...

On Wall Street when you've got a hot stock everyone wants a piece of the action. Does the same mentality apply to water and the Great Lakes? More...

It was big news for city planning and urban design in Cleveland last week that Cuyahoga County launched the search for a team to design the long-desired pedestrian bridge that would link the downtown Mall to North Coast Harbor. More...

Montreal's splashiest political display took place Tuesday morning as several dozens of swimmers leaped and dived into the St. Lawrence River of the Jacques Cartier Pier in the Old Port as a means to promote river access. More...

Lake Erie bears the brunt of the region's phosphorus overload, but the problem isn't isolated to a specific lake or a single cause. Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River experience algal blooms to an extent as well, and the culprits include industries, farms and sewage coming from Windsor-Essex County and the rivers that run through it. More...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently initiated a project called "Voices from the Working Waterfront," which will record oral histories about efforts to preserve the cultural heritage of these unique and often historic maritime communities. More...

Ohio environmental regulators are working with local and federal agencies to find new uses for dredged sediment so that it no longer ends up in Lake Erie. More...

Overcast skies didn't stop thousands from camping out along the Maumee River in downtown Toledo, Ohio on Saturday for a bit of dragon boat watching. More...

Bay Shipbuilding Co. announced Friday that it has been awarded a contract to build two 155,000-barrel capacity barges and two 6,000-horsepower tugs at its Sturgeon Bay shipyard for Kirby Corp. More...

Cleveland newspaper editorial board calls for Congress to enact legislation ordering the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to implement the hydrological separation of the Mississippi River and Great Lakes basins. More...

Environmental organization argues against a proposed nuclear waste repository near Lake Huron. More...

In an effort to keep up with the lake, its fish and its anglers, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources revises its fisheries plan every 10 years. Public comment is now sought on the draft plan. More...

Measures to pressure communities to improve sewer systems, block invasive species from getting into the U.S. and fund continuing cleanup efforts in the Great Lakes are among the bills awaiting action in Congress. More...

In an effort to keep up with the lake, its fish and its anglers, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources revises its fisheries plan every 10 years. WDNR seeks public comment on its draft plan. More...

Western Canada's bumper crop, as well as output from Ontario, have boosted grain shipments through the St. Lawrence Seaway by 50 percent to 2.7 million tonnes so far this shipping season. More...

The mystery of the Great Lakes' oldest shipwreck might be on its way to being solved. More...

The six tribes of Wisconsin's Chippewa Federation will meet with federal environmental officials next month to outline their objections to Gogebic Taconite's mining plans in the Lake Superior region. More...

Erie's Norman Stark has abandoned his attempt to swim across Lake Erie today. He would have been the youngest person to swim the 24.3 mile route. More...

In 2013, the vast majority of worldwide climate indicators -- greenhouse gases, sea levels, global temperatures, etc. -- continued to reflect trends of a warmer planet, according to the indicators assessed in the State of the Climate in 2013 report, released online this week by the American Meteorological Society. More...

In recent years, an offshore project was abandoned in New York; Pennsylvania has focused on natural gas as an energy source; and in Michigan the legislature introduced a bill to prohibit issuing permits for offshore wind turbines. For years, efforts to install wind turbines off Cape Cod in the Atlantic have also faced strong opposition. But recently, plans for a proposed wind farm near Cleveland on Lake Erie looked promising. More...

Remember how miserable we were this past winter? Well, it's paying off for people who live and work along the shores of Lake Michigan. After seeing critically low water levels just a year and a half ago, the water in lake Michigan seems to be on the rebound. More...

Could there be a shark in Lake Ontario?A video uploaded to YouTube last week shows what might be a shark briefly surfacing in the water on Wolfe Island, where the St. Lawrence River meets Lake Ontario, the National Post reported. More...