The study did not investigate freshwater harmful algal blooms, which are also assumed to be increasing globally because of more nutrients in lakes and rivers and warmer water temperatures.
For the past seven years, Kohler Company and neighbors of the Kohler-Andre State Park have been battling over 250 adjoining acres of land, citing shoreline erosion, threatened species and wetland encroachment.
A Chicago bus driver looking for a way to relieve stress during the coronavirus pandemic jumped into Lake Michigan for a 365th straight day on Saturday.
More than 2,000 Indigenous leaders and “water protectors” gathered in Clearwater County from around the country to protest the construction of Enbridge Line 3.
The Keystone XL is dead after a 12-year attempt to complete the partially built oil pipeline. But the fight over Canadian crude rages on as emboldened environmentalists target other projects and pressure President Joe Biden to intervene.
Line 3 opponents are focusing on blocking the rebuilding project instead of shutting down the line, although their long-term goal is making it obsolete through conversion from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
Wisconsin state officials have been supplying bottled water to island residents.
A basin-wide precipitation monitoring program is finding PFAS showing up all around the Great Lakes, from Chicago to Sleeping Bear Dunes.
Researchers from the University of Minnesota and the California Association of Resource Conservation Districts surveyed residents of the north shore of Lake Superior to understand how the communities there might be impacted by climate change.
The recommendations come after tests revealed elevated levels of PFAS in several fish species in lakes Monona, Kegonsa and Waubesa.
