Anglers on Lake Huron are encouraged to check any salmon or trout they catch in Lake Huron for an electronic tag on the fish’s adipose fin. The tags are used by state and federal researchers to track fish populations, and anglers could receive $100 for …
There’s been a lot of news about the amount of plastic debris in the oceans, but plastic pollution also affects the Great Lakes. A study from the Rochester Institute of Technology estimates 22 million pounds of plastic debris enters the Great Lakes fro …
Cities surrounding Michigan’s Thunder Bay may not have the equipment needed to respond to an oil spill, if one were to occur, but they do have well-stocked military base and disaster response agencies at their disposal. Read the full story by Great Lak …
If Line 5 is still pumping petroleum through the Straits of Mackinac on Thursday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has notified Enbridge Energy she will consider all resulting profits to be property of the state of Michigan. Read the full story by Great …
Gravel miners and other business groups are launching a new push to make it easier to open sand and gravel mines in residential areas in Michigan. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Ontario’s Lakehead University has announced the launch of the Lake Superior Climate Action Field School, in cooperation with three other universities on both sides of the international boundary. Read the full story by Thunder Bay News Watch.
A major effort is underway to protect the Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk in Portage, Indiana, from further erosion. Read the full story by WFLD-TV – Chicago, IL.
The University of Toledo recently received more than a million dollars from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, part of which will fund research to understand the biological mechanisms of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie. Read the full story by WTVG-TV …
A recently proposed bill that would modify the Fisheries Act in a way that would essentially return to prior laws, which were ineffective and rarely enforced, was dismissed as a step backwards by environmentalists and opposing Members of Parliament. Re …
Ontario’s Laurentian University will be losing three researchers within its environmental sciences department due to restructuring. The loss of the three “Sudbury Model” researchers will affect local opportunities for the education and research of aqua …