By Alexander Boesch President Trump has ordered the U.S. Department of the Interior to consider removing the grey wolf from the federal Endangered Species List. If that happens, some Republican state ...

Minnesota anglers are facing a shortage of one of the state’s most popular baitfish, and fish farmers are looking for ways to ...

Parks can help Detroit residents beat the summer heat, but not everyone has equal access to them. That is the finding of a ...

By Eric Freedman A Michigan man faces trial later this fall on charges of illegally discharging sewage into Lake Michigan, illegally using Coast Guard insignia and impersonating a federal officer.

"This Magnetic North" explores how Northern Michigan's temperate climate, buffered by the Great Lakes, makes the region a ...

Researchers at Michigan State University are exploring an unexpected new tool that could reshape how scientists detect so-called forever chemicals in lakes, rivers and wetlands across the Great Lakes.

Most households in Jackson, Michigan, get their water through lead pipes. But the city is making significant progress in changing that, an official said. “We have about 12,000 water service lines in ...

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources has detected invasive carp in the Illinois River only 80 miles from Lake Michigan. That’s the closest the fish are known to have gotten to the Great Lakes, ...

Algae can be used for sustainable products, but you need enough of it — enough biomass — to do so. Researchers at Michigan State University say they’ve developed a way to more evenly distribute ...

The eastern massasauga rattlesnake is the only native venomous snake in Michigan — but the state Department of Natural Resources says it has not killed anybody here in over a century. One did, however ...

Illinois becomes first Great Lakes state to classify plastic pellets as a pollutant. Gov. JB Pritzker has signed legislation aimed at reducing a significant source of plastic pollution in the region’s ...

Bald eagles are helping scientists uncover where per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, contamination may be coming from across Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region. A new study in the journal ...