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 ...

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.

The Doug Ford government is pushing for a prospecting rush across northern Ontario, leaving a blanket of mineral claims on land where First Nations are still fighting for title.

There was a time when many people in the Great Lakes watershed drank sewage. With some highly publicized exceptions like the disastrous lead contamination of the Flint, Michigan, water supply in 2014 ...

Aerial view in November 2022 of steam and other emissions emerging through the haze at DTE EES Coke plant, Zug Island, River Rouge, Michigan ...

Following power plant closures and EPA intervention, Detroit and Downriver are seeing lower levels of SO2 pollution. One ...

More PFAS news as study detects PFAS in wristbands, another correlates prescription drugs with “forever chemicals” in ...