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Unless the Michigan legislature passes the governor’s proposed landfill fee bump, a program that’s recruited volunteers to test streams and lakes for 40 years will be terminated in 2019.
The controversial waterfowl can destroy habitats and property, but researchers say cormorant culls can hurt the other bird species they’re meant to protect.
Male sex hormones like testosterone help battle mercury contamination in Great Lakes fish, researchers say.
A coastal protection program that generated an estimated $86.9 million in economic impact across six Great Lakes offices in 2016 has again been zeroed out in the federal budget proposal after strong lawmaker support successfully restored funding to the…
A single pair of the shorebirds nested along the lake last summer for the first time in 60 years. They’re an encouragement to the wildlife managers who are reclaiming the plover’s old habitat.
Researchers say lake trout have flexible diets–calming fears that the resurgent species is competing with salmon for the dwindling supply of alewife in the Great Lakes.
Sturgeons project their jawbones from their skulls, creating the suction they need to vacuum food from lake beds.
Toledo and Lucas County officials are leading the fight to curb Ohio’s algae-feeding pollutants. It’s a role they say should be played by the U.S. EPA.
Walleye populations in Lake Huron and the Saginaw Bay have bounced back powerfully, just a few decades after they came close to disappearing. Some scientists worry that perch are paying the price.
Great Lakes researchers hope that year-long recording of underwater sounds near Puerto Rico could lead to similar recording of fish and other watery sounds here.