A very round white throated sparrow is the heavyweight champion of the 2025 Wisconsin Fat Bird Week contest. The bird, coined ...

Microplastics are turning up everywhere, including our water, our food, and even our bodies. And the Great Lakes are no ...

As the climate changes, the far north is drying and warming, which means wildfires are getting bigger and more intense. The area burned in Canada is now the second largest on record for this time of ...

This is the latest in a series of intense wildfire seasons in Canada — and smoky springs and summers in the Midwest.

Lake Erie is plagued by toxic cyanobacterial blooms fed by phosphorus runoff from farm fields. Michigan is struggling to ...

Residents want to know if the area’s industrial past is tied to Marion County health department study findings.

House Bill 15 forbids settlements to close or curtail ​“base load” power plants, which exclude renewables. The law may pave ...

A new trail system aims to connect eight states, communities and ecosystems along the world’s largest freshwater system.

More energy news with a Michigan coal plant ordered to stay open and Ohio’s new energy law bringing big changes.

Because many of the standard scientific practices of the time conflicted with the Tribe’s cultural beliefs, the Tribe ...

Michigan, Ohio and Ontario failed to reduce the total phosphorus entering Lake Erie in 10 years. State officials and ...

Tom Farnquist is in the business of preserving underwater artifacts and displaying them in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum.