Milwaukee is building a massive underwater storage facility in Lake Michigan, just south of the Summerfest grounds, to store ...

Nothing like gazing at a cool Lake Michigan to take the sting out of a hot and hazy August day. Wading in the blue water is even better. The environmental health of the Big Lake in this summer of 2025 ...

A new study by Rochester Institute of Technology that inventories and tracks high concentrations of plastic in the Great Lakes could help inform cleanup efforts and target pollution prevention.

Through the murky waters of the Illinois River, scud have been moving steadily toward Lake Michigan. Scientists suggest the tiny crustaceans, an invasive species known as Apocorophium lacustre, pose a ...

Though some companies cut back on Lake Michigan basin pollution in 2007, overall chemical releases from Indiana and Illinois industries increased, a Times' review of recently released EPA data shows.

As issues like algal blooms and microplastics stymie regulators, the Great Lakes also saw improvements for other parts of the region. New technology is ridding large plastic pollution while piping ...

LANSING, Mich. — Lawmakers in the Michigan House and Senate introduced several bills last week in an effort to crack down on microplastics in the Great Lakes. Specifically, the proposed legislation ...

Back in 2014, singer-songwriter Lee Murdock released a song that asked the question: “What about the water?” The song is about the pollution in Lake Erie in the 1960s and ’70s. At that time, headlines ...

An Ingham County judge set aside some stricter CAFO rules on process grounds while preserving findings on manure and phosphorus pollution.