Lake Erie is plagued by toxic cyanobacterial blooms fed by phosphorus runoff from farm fields. Michigan is struggling to reduce the pollution by 40%.

As conversations continue to build among policymakers and industry leaders on how to best address nutrient runoff, energy ...

Michigan, Ohio and Ontario failed to reduce the total phosphorus entering Lake Erie in 10 years. State officials and ...

Livelihoods and economies in the Great Lakes region always centered on water. From the manoomin, or wild rice, grown and revered by the Ojibwe people to the whitefish catch in Lake Michigan, to the ...

The cause: industrial and agricultural practices — driven by demand for ... Research and Professor in the School of Freshwater Sciences at UW-Milwaukee’s Great Lakes Water Institute, told Circle of ...

The Great Lakes have a long history of pollution ... Growing seasons are getting longer, meaning greater agricultural demand for water, as well. There’s also a more existential threat to ...

Paul Den Uyl, a scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research who led the recent study, extracted and ...

A lock and dam project in Illinois to help prevent invasive Asian carp from reaching Lake Michigan is moving forward.

there are stressors on the Great Lakes on the horizon as the need for water increases for large scale uses like tech manufacturing and data center management. Growing seasons are getting longer, ...