Great Lakes

Ten finalists presented projects that dealt with PFAS, lead contamination, microplastics and nutrients.

Representatives from eight Great Lakes states and two Canadian provinces met this week to discuss management issues in the region.

A warm winter and lack of ice in Lakes Erie and Huron has prompted to Coast Guard to put ice breaking on hold until further notice.

Tribal fisheries biologists are leading the way on a project that will submerge cameras to get a better idea of how fish populations are interacting and changing.

The LSSU student-faculty duo hopes the sequenced genome of the freshwater sponge Corvomeyenia everetti will help fight off future invasive species.

The shoreline along Buffalo Reef has been contaminated with stamp sands for decades. Now, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources says it has a preliminary plan to clean it up.

A new bill in the U.S. House of Representatives calls on the federal government to create a high-resolution map of all five lakebeds.

A full-time mussel biologist is joining the DNR's ranks. The agency has several mussel experts, but this will be the first scientist entirely devoted to the creatures. They'll help kickstart a two-year project on Michigan's native and invasive mussels.

Some items in the plan have long been part of the agency’s mission. But others reflect emerging concerns, including a new focus on cybersecurity at the region's ports.

12 projects across the Great Lakes are receiving funding to support community-led PFAS organizing.