Altogether, the Great Lakes are seeing healthier ice coverage this year. Here's what to know about their current conditions.

As a senator, JD Vance supported funding for the restoration of the lakes. Advocates are hoping the vice president will as ...

Funding for eight new wetland projects in five northwest Ohio counties now brings the grand total to 203 statewide.

We believe that doubling down on clean energy is key to ensuring that Pennsylvania remains an economic powerhouse in a ...

Legal action continues in efforts at cleaning up a portion of Ohio's waterways. The Ohio EPA has been added as a defendant, ...

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 ...

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

Chris Langer is the director and producer of "Ripples of Plastic," a 2024 documentary dealing with the growing waste of ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — After last week's Arctic blast, icy conditions rapidly developed on the Maumee River and Lake Erie. Ice fisherman took advantage of the frozen conditions after several winters of ...

A West Virginia University researcher is working to understand and estimate environmental cleanup costs associated with agricultural runoff that causes polluted "dead zones" in downstream coastal ...

Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution in the environment dating to around 5,200 years ago ...