Great Lakes

Plastic debris found in tap water, beer, and sea salt

You may think you're ingesting a safe, clean product, but you're really putting synthetic microfibers into your body. It is…

7 years ago

Wisconsin DNR Sets Hearing on Foxconn Water Diversion

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has scheduled a public hearing on Racine officials' request to pull 7 million gallons…

7 years ago

Controversial insecticides pervasive in Great Lakes tributaries

A variety of neonicotinoids—harmful to aquatic organisms—are reported in major Great Lakes streams U.S. scientists found neonicotinoid insecticides in about…

7 years ago

Attack of the Killer Algae

Photo: Algal bloom on Lake Erie A roving pack of journalists shake off the rain in a squat, one-story federal…

7 years ago

Lake Superior No Longer the Clearest of the Great Lakes

Photo: Lake Superior, seen from the Park Point beach in Duluth in August. Many people who've spent much time around…

7 years ago