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Posted inAP, Article, Beaches, Boating, Paddle Sports and Sailing, Featured, Lake Michigan, Latest News, Michigan, News, Recreation and Tourism, Region

For open water swimmers, even chilly, choppy water beckons

by The Associated Press May 4, 2023
Posted inAP, Article, Books, Authors, Art and Music, Detroit, Featured, Freighters, History and Culture, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake Superior, Latest News, Michigan, News, Ontario, Recreation and Tourism, Region, Shipwrecks, Toronto

Folk singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dies at 84

by The Associated Press May 2, 2023
Posted inAP, Article, Energy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and Fracking, Featured, Industry, Energy, Economic Development, Lake Michigan, Latest News, Michigan, News, Politics, Policy, Environmental Justice, Region, Research, Data and Technology, Science, Technology, Research, The States

Company seeks first-time restart of shuttered nuclear plant

by The Associated Press April 27, 2023
Posted inAP, Article, Chicago, Energy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and Fracking, Feature-Chicago, Featured, Illinois, Industry, Energy, Economic Development, Lake Michigan, Latest News, Municipalities, News, Politics, Policy, Environmental Justice, Region

In Chicago, adapting electric buses to winter’s challenges

by The Associated Press March 7, 2023
Posted inAP, Article, Beaches, Boating, Paddle Sports and Sailing, History and Culture, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Latest News, Michigan, News, Recreation and Tourism, Region, Shipwrecks, Tourism

Long-lost ship found in Lake Huron, confirming tragic story

by The Associated Press March 1, 2023
Posted inAbout Great Lakes Now, Authors, Energy News Roundup, Energy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and Fracking, Featured, Illinois, Indiana, Industry, Energy, Economic Development, Lake Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Region, Who We Are and What We Do, Wisconsin

Energy News Roundup: Minnesota’s 2040 carbon-free energy bill, coal ash crackdown continues

by Kathy Johnson, Great Lakes Now February 9, 2023
Posted inFeatured, Fish, Birds and Animals, Forever Chemicals Featured, Great Lakes News Collaborative, Guest Article, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Latest News, Michigan, News, PFAS, Region, Science, Technology, Research, Water Quality and Restoration Efforts, Wisconsin

Lakes Michigan and Huron join list of lakes with PFAS-tainted smelt

by Bridge Michigan February 2, 2023
Posted inAbout Great Lakes Now, Alex Hill, Authors, Buffalo, Featured, Lake Erie, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Latest News, Michigan, New York, News, Ontario, Recreation and Tourism, Region, Science, Technology, Research, Who We Are and What We Do

Mapping the Great Lakes: Snowfall in the snowbelt

by Alex Hill January 23, 2023November 8, 2025
Posted inClimate Change, Featured, Great Lakes News Collaborative, Guest Article, Lake Michigan, Latest News, Michigan, News, Region, Research, Data and Technology, Science, Technology, Research

Michigan winters are super cloudy and getting worse. Here’s how to deal.

by Bridge Michigan January 18, 2023
Posted inAbout Great Lakes Now, Authors, Featured, Great Lakes News Collaborative, Guest Article, Illinois, Lake Michigan, Latest News, Michigan, New York, News, PFAS, PFAS News Roundup, Politics, Policy, Environmental Justice, Region, Water Quality and Restoration Efforts, Who We Are and What We Do, Wisconsin

PFAS News Roundup: ‘Forever chemicals’ in Lake Michigan

by Kathy Johnson, Great Lakes Now January 17, 2023

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  • What’s next for Ohio’s former green steel project? More coal, it seems.
    Cleveland-Cliffs won a federal grant to install hydrogen-ready tech. Now, it wants to revamp its Middletown blast furnace, raising questions about its use of funds.
  • Spore loser: the DIY mushroom-growing trend invading Ontario forests
    Golden oyster mushrooms are spreading fast, altering how Ontario’s forests grow, decompose and nurture important native mushrooms.
  • The northern Michigan ice storm battered the electric grid. Is burying power lines the solution?
    It's been a year since the devastating ice storm. Poles and wires have since been replaced, but some residents wonder whether it makes more sense to bury them out of the reach of increasingly damaging snow, wind and ice.

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