Great Lakes

Wild rice grows in shallow waterways in the Great Lakes region and parts of Canada. It’s a plant that holds important ecological and cultural significance, but it’s been on the decline since the early 1900s.

The Great Lakes shipping industry is bracing for the impact of a potential 25% tariff on Canadian imported goods, as promised by President-elect Donald Trump.

The Canadian government wants to store 50,000 tons of nuclear waste underneath the Great Lakes basin. Congressional leaders are trying to stop it before President-elect Trump takes office.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced the completion of the second of three phases in the construction of a new Soo Lock.

The Alpena-Amberley Ridge is an ongoing archaeology project in Lake Huron that looks at a 9,000 year old hunter-gather site. The lead researchers on this project have returned to Alpena for their 16th year of investigation.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced a new agreement Monday to try to prevent invasive carp from reaching Lake Michigan.

Fish and Wildlife native species crews from the northeast were sent downstate to help with a large lake sturgeon project that's helping geneticists use eDNA to detect sturgeon populations.

June through August is mayfly season, and southeast Michigan has already seen a plethora of swarms emerge. Soon, these insects will be hatching across the Great Lakes.

Transport Canada and the U.S. Coast Guard have launched a joint investigation to determine what caused the breach on the 72-year-old ship.

Great Lakes Great Responsibility, a cleanup group based in northeast Michigan with work extending throughout the Great Lakes basin, just surpassed collecting 333,000 pieces of trash. This is a third of their goal to collecting one million pieces of trash through the #GreatLakes1Million challenge.