The small plastic particles are "ubiquitous" in Great Lakes water, sediment, plants, fish and beaches, an international panel ...

When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...

Scientists are urging the US and Canadian governments to take swift action after discovering high levels of microplastic ...

International Joint Commission’s Great Lakes Science Advisory Board says lakes Ontario and Michigan show greater ...

In the Great Lakes, plastic pollution along the shorelines poses a major challenge: 86% of litter collected on Great Lakes beaches is either partially or completely composed of plastic.

More than 22 million pounds of plastic pollution end up in the Great Lakes every year, according to the Rochester Institute ...

The display partnered with SC Johnson and shows visitors how much plastic is entering the Great Lakes and ways in which this issue can be stopped while encouraging those to take action.

(Answer: 22 million pounds of plastic enter the Great Lakes as a whole each year ... the bane of the particle pollution world. Pretty much impossible to filter out of Lake Erie, microplastics ...

For more than 20 years, professor Keith Grasman has studied the effects of pollution on Great Lakes colonial waterbirds, focusing on three species: Herring Gulls, Black-Crowned Night Herons and ...

Bits of plastic smaller than 5 mm long ... It remained the dominant issue in Great Lakes pollution through the early ‘90s, when hydrophobic organic chemicals came to the fore, said Joe Atkinson ...