In this month’s column, John Hartig discusses the lessons that can be learned from the naturalization of Toronto’s Don River.
Federal and state governments begin to reverse course on underinvestment to address water’s true cost.
Catch the latest updates on what’s happening with PFAS in Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.
This special column from John Hartig celebrates that after roughly a century, there’s finally photographic evidence that otters have returned to the Detroit River.
Test your knowledge on Michigan’s humongous fungus, famous mobsters from the ‘30s and ‘40s who vacationed in the Great Lakes region, and some of the latest news around the region.
Researchers have found that ballast water regulation has been key in the fight against invasive species.
Tapping maple trees for their syrup has been a Great Lakes region tradition for a long time – Indigenous groups on both sides of the lakes have been sugaring maple trees for thousands of years.
For the whole month of May, Great Lakes Now will be looking at aging water infrastructure and the rising literal cost of water as part of a series from the Great Lakes News Collaborative.
The Ontario government initially planned more ambitious additions to the Greenbelt. But after pushback from cities and industry, what’s left are a series of river valleys that were already protected.
Take some advice from the 2,500-year-old, 400,000-kilogram fungus living in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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