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State is a center of manure biodigester development.

As aquifers dry up, some Midwest communities are looking to the region’s greatest natural resources for a solution. A 2008 law governs access to it—with an exemption for Illinois.

Ashley Williams is committed to realizing a just and equitable transition for her community.

The Chicago River’s hardened shorelines, stormwater pollution events and limited habitat would seem inhospitable to fish. Yet, native species are finding ways to call the city home.

Catch the latest updates on what’s happening with PFAS in the Great Lakes region.

Lake Michigan’s surface temperature has been above average nearly every day this year so far. All five Great Lakes are heating up.

The rice harvest — manoominike — has officially started across Ojibwe country. Columnist Staci Lola Drouillard talks with her cousin about harvesting and processing wild rice, as well as the importance of water quality for growing “the good berry.”

A researcher in Ohio was surrounded by hundreds of dead ash trees. They had been wiped out by a beetle called the emerald ash borer. But in that same forest, she found a lone tree thriving. Could this be the key to saving ash from extinction?

Chris Bzdok has argued that utility customers shouldn’t have to pay for coal infrastructure, because the investment isn’t worth it in the long run.

As groundwater resources are increasingly under threat in the U.S. — including the Great Lakes region — regulation, oversight and planning for the long-term are diffused and often lacking.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is banking on public oversight of the largest Great Lake to help gauge the threat of increasingly common algal blooms.