As government sensors fall short, people are buying their own to protect against particulate pollution linked to heart and lung disease, cancer and a higher overall risk of premature death.

Beaver-inspired structures could limit flooding and benefit wildlife habitat, but state permitting is arduous.

Research has already found the Great Lakes are losing ice cover at a rate of about 5 percent each decade for a total loss of 25 percent between 1973 and 2023. Those changes are occurring as the region ...

According to a recent study, recreational fishing in the Great Lakes is worth $5.1 billion. The Great Lakes Fishery Commission hired Southwick Associates to calculate the economic output. The area ...

Great Lakes Fact or Fake? is a new book by Dave Dempsey. Below are adapted excerpts from the book, which bring readers along while he answers 41 myths about the Great Lakes. FACT or FAKE? There was a ...

The Trump administration promises to roll back clean energy incentives while the nuclear sector hangs on to its tenuous ...

Managing Canada geese, saving freshwater mussels, and an Ojibwe lens on the fur trade.

In this episode of Great Lakes Now, “Too Many Geese and Not Enough Mussels,” a look at efforts to manage the overpopulation of Canada geese, a project aimed at recovering freshwater mussels, and an ...

I Speak for the Fish is a monthly column written by Great Lakes Now Contributor Kathy Johnson, coming out the third Monday of each month. Publishing the author’s views and assertions does not ...