Chemistry, cold water and isolation make it hard for invasive mussels to get a foothold in the Big Lake. But a spate of recent outbreaks from Isle Royale to Canada’s Nipigon Bay have scientists ...

The Ontario government is handing provincial parklands over to the town in hopes of boosting the local economy. Residents ...

Great Lakes states should take steps to protect water resources from increasing demand from data centers and other industries ...

More energy news as General Motors partially shuts down an EV factory and young people in Wisconsin sue over climate change.

The Grand Traverse Band is turning the waste into a compost and fertilizer, cutting down on landfill waste and helping with ...

Long a threat to southern Ontario lakes, climate change is allowing cyanobacteria — or blue-green algae — to thrive in even ...

In 2014, a group of botanists discovered that a very rare plant native to the Kankakee River in Illinois, had vanished from ...

Electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian is suing Ohio for letting Tesla open car dealerships in the state but not letting other manufacturers do the same. Both Rivian and Tesla operate their own ...

Great Lakes Moment is a monthly column written by Great Lakes Now Contributor John Hartig. Publishing the author’s views and assertions does not represent endorsement by Great Lakes Now or Detroit PBS ...

Shortly after Chelsea Rochman started her faculty job at the University of Toronto, she began working with the Government of Canada to sample microplastics in fish from Lake Ontario. What she found, ...