Green Bay, Wisconsin, Mayor Eric Genrich has proposed a new position in his 2020 budget to help the city deal with the effects of climate change.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently appointed Ninah Sasy to fill the new clean water public advocate position she created in the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy.
Here’s a look at some of President Donald Trump’s statements on former President Barack Obama’s climate policies, delivered Oct. 23 in Pennsylvania when he addressed an energy-industry event focused on fracking.
In sewers around the world, piles of fat, oil and grease are congealing together to form masses called fatbergs. They’re all a little different in their composition and location. With this quiz, you can see which one might share qualities with you.
Detroit Public TV will bring along teachers, students and caretakers on a Virtual Field Trip to learn more about the Great Lakes.
In the mid-1800s, the Great Black Swamp was slowly drained as settlers dug drainage trenches and felled trees. The area is now largely farmland. But draining that swamp led to some unanticipated consequences.
Opponents of the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine urged the Minnesota Court of Appeals on Oct. 23 to cancel the project’s permit to mine and dam safety permit and order further proceedings to determine whether the mine’s environmental and financial safeguards are adequate.
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management announced last week that steelmaker ArcelorMittal knew it was leaking dangerous chemicals into Lake Michigan in August but failed to report the spill or act quickly to mitigate the risks.
Household waste, lead and agricultural runoff are byproducts of modern life. In this episode of Great Lakes Now, get the down-and-dirty reality of what can happen when these substances get into the region’s water systems.
Traveling from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Toledo, Ohio, along the Maumee River, writer Ryan Schnurr failed to have one big epiphany. Instead, he had many small ones.
