Great Lakes Successes - Part 2

<> Great Lakes Successes – Part 2 - We've all made remarkable progress in the first five years of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), much of it visible. [See Part 1]

El Nino has dramatic effect on Great Lakes ice cover

<> El Nino has dramatic effect on Great Lakes ice cover - This coming winter's ice cover on the Great Lakes may be a lot different from the past two years because of a strong El Nino that is expected to last into winter.

Great Lakes Successes Take Front & Center - Part 1

<> Great Lakes Successes Take Front & Center – Part 1 - It's official. The first five years of the precedent-setting Great Lakes Restoration Initiative are history -- and the Initiative has made history.

COMMENTARY: A tour of Lake Michigan, my inland sea

<> COMMENTARY: A tour of Lake Michigan, my inland sea - Chicago, sand dunes, a ferry crossing. A voyage around Lake Michigan reveals striking topography, time-worn communities and the reassuring permanence of an unchanging lake amid it all.

Stay out of the scum, warns NOAA's latest bulletin on Lake Erie's Harmful Algal Bloom

<> Stay out of the scum, warns NOAA's latest bulletin on Lake Erie's Harmful Algal Bloom - Lake Erie's annual summer bloom is underway, and it's shaping up to be one of the most severe in the past decade.

'All hands on deck' Enbridge oil spill drill planned for Mackinac straits

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<> 'All hands on deck' Enbridge oil spill drill planned for Mackinac straits - The "mother of all exercises" to gauge Enbridge Inc.'s ability to respond to an oil spill under the Mackinac straits will happen next month -- Sept. 22-25 and involve hundreds of responders, more than a dozen boats, multiple helicopters, drones, underwater vehicles, wave gliders and other equipment designed to gauge real-time wind, wave and current data in the heavily trafficked waterway.

Halting Asian carp advance 'stymied' by Illinois interests, says MI senator

<> Halting Asian carp advance 'stymied' by Illinois interests, says MI senator - "There's just not the same sense of urgency," said Sen. Debbie Stabenow. "We're stymied because we can't get support, frankly, from Illinois or Chicago. Their senators and representatives won't support doing something."