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Banding Birds and Breaking Ice

by Great Lakes Now April 27, 2026April 27, 2026

The mission to band 100,000 birds and how icebreakers keep freighters moving in winter.

Posted inUncategorized

Fish City | Hidden Below: Live

by Great Lakes Now March 26, 2026March 26, 2026
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Sorting Fish and Breakaway Buoys

by Great Lakes Now January 26, 2026January 26, 2026
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Exploring Lake Huron’s hidden sinkholes

by Great Lakes Now January 23, 2026January 23, 2026
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What did archeologists find in this Michigan farm?

by Great Lakes Now January 7, 2026January 7, 2026
Posted inAgriculture, Great Lakes News Collaborative, Illinois, Industry, Latest News, News, Politics, Region

This wetland fight could go to the Supreme Court

by Great Lakes Now July 15, 2025
Posted inFeatured, Latest News, News

Has this freighter made its final voyage?

by Great Lakes Now July 8, 2025
Posted inBooks, Art and Music, Culture, Equity and Environmental Justice, Featured, Indigenous Communities, Latest News, Minnesota, News, Politics, Region, Water Quality, Waves of Change

Waves of Change: Meet Ojibwe leader, activist and water walker Sharon Day

by Great Lakes Now June 26, 2025
Posted inDrinking Water, Fish, Birds and Animals, Latest News, News, Ohio, Region, Science, Technology & Research, Water Quality

How much plastic is in the Great Lakes?

by Great Lakes Now June 9, 2025
Posted inFeatured, Fish, Birds and Animals, Latest News, News, Science, Technology & Research

How are science and tradition saving sturgeon?

by Great Lakes Now June 3, 2025

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Latest News

  • Milwaukee Water Works reduces fluoride in drinking water by half due to shortage
    Utilities nationwide have seen supply challenges due to domestic constraints and the ongoing Iran War.
  • Illinois Governor signs landmark plastic pollution bill to protect Great Lakes
    Illinois is the first Great Lakes state to classify plastic pellets as a pollutant, a move advocates say helps keep millions of pellets out of the region’s waterways.
  • Seedling data shows Michigan forests under pressure from climate change, deer, disease
    For three decades, Michigan State University researchers have gone to Manistee National Forest to study seedlings to find out about the future of Michigan’s forests.

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