More PFAS news with an update on Wisconsin’s frozen funding, and how federal freezes are impacting pollution grants.

Steel production fell by 7,000 tons in the Great Lakes region the previous week, even as it grew nationwide, according to Washington, D.C.-based American Iron and Steel Institute, the steel industry's ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has halted a key project meant to defend the Great Lakes from invasive carp, citing federal funding ...

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When Michigan's many lakes and rivers form ice, it can be hard to stay away. Some ice isn't worth stepping onto, experts say.

Get our free Wednesday newsletter and you’ll always be in the know. Sign up now A new study builds on previous research that shows winters on the Great Lakes are growing shorter due to climate change.

There was a time when many people in the Great Lakes watershed drank sewage. The Great Lakes are “Unsalted and Shark-free,” as a vehicle decal popular in the region proudly declares. Some residents of ...

And it’s a warning of what could happen everywhere else. “We focus on lakes in the Arctic because they are such great sentinels of climate change. They tend to show change before other lake ...

Following two months of record heat and precipitation in fall 2022, an estimated 7,500 lakes in West Greenland turned brown, began emitting carbon and decreased in water quality in less than a year.

This is neither new nor necessarily bad. “Presidents who go down in the history books as ‘great’ are those who reach for power, who assert their authority to the limit,” the presidential ...