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Monday, September 11, 2023

A surfer and a seagull walk along a Lake Superior beach in Duluth on Sept. 7, 2023. Water levels on the lake are still above their long-term average, but they rose little during the summer due to dry conditions. Danielle Kaeding/WPR Water levels on the Great Lakes rose sharply earlier this year due to a very wet spring, but they

by: Danielle Kaeding, Wisconsin Public Radio

tags: Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Wisconsin

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

The 1,200-pound mussel-encrusted engine from a P-39 World War II-era fighter plane flown by a member of the famed Tuskegee airmen is moved, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023 at the Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum in Detroit. The plane was flown by a member of the famed Tuskegee airmen that crashed during training nearly 80 years ago

by: Matt Durr, MLive

tags: History, Lake Huron, Michigan

Friday, August 18, 2023

Photo by: Greg Lashbrook, PolkaDotPerch.com via Michigan DNR It's summer in Michigan and people flocking to lakes and other bodies of water around the state may see something they didn't know we had – jellyfish. This week, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources put out information to remind people they may catch a

by: Max White, WXYZ Detroit

tags: Great Lakes, Lake Huron, Michigan

Monday, August 14, 2023

LANSING, Mich. (FOX 2) - Those with an appetite for fish caught in the Great Lakes should be wary of how much they consume from some of the region's largest water bodies, and should entirely avoid fish from some tributaries in Southeast Michigan. That's the advice from the health department's Eat Safe Fish guidelines, which unveiled

by: Jack Nissen, Fox 2 Detroit

tags: Fishing, Great Lakes, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Mitchel Bortolon, a student public health inspector, is shown in this 2018 file photo taking a water sample from Lake Huron at Canatara Beach as part of Lambton Public Health's beach water sampling program. File photo/Postmedia Network PHOTO BY FILE PHOTO /Paul Morden/The Observer Local MPPs recently announced the Ontario

by: The Sun Times

tags: Canada, Environmental Impact, Great Lakes, Lake Huron

Thursday, July 13, 2023

Water flowing into the Poe Lock, the largest chamber of the Soo Locks. Photo provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. SAULT STE. MARIE, MI – Explosives will be used as work progresses toward the construction of a new superlock at the Soo Locks in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, officials said. During a meeting Monday,

by: Justine Lofton

tags: Great Lakes, Lake Huron, Lake Superior, Michigan

Friday, July 7, 2023

Featured image: This aerial photograph of Middle Island in Lake Huron shows the roughly 20 yard deep and 100 yard wide Middle Island sinkhole. (Photo credit: Bopi Biddanda and Scott Kendall, GVSU) Earlier this year, a group of Michigan scientists published a study in The Journal of Great Lakes Research entitled “Extant mat

by: Sharon Oosthoek, Great Lakes Now

tags: Canada, Great Lakes, Lake Huron, Michigan

Thursday, June 22, 2023

News Photo by Darby Hinkley: The collaborative research team working in Thunder Bay includes, from left, Onur Bagoren and Anja Sheppard, of the University of Michigan, Mason Pesson, Corina Barbalata, and William Ard, of Louisiana State University, Jamey Anderson, of Michigan Technological University, and Katie Skinner, of the

by: Darby Hinkley

tags: Education, Lake Huron, Michigan, Shipwrecks

Thursday, June 1, 2023

The U.S. Geological Survey watches from a boat as the Archimedes screw is installed. (Courtesy of Scott Miehls) In the course of 11 days, a device dating back to 234 B.C. successfully captured 704 fish and lifted them into a collection basket as part of a project to determine if the method could be used in the future to move

by: Elaine Mallon, Great Lakes Echo

tags: Fishing, Great Lakes, Lake Huron, Michigan

Friday, April 14, 2023

The Lake Huron Coastal Centre will hold its biennial conference delving into the coastal sustainability challenges and solutions for Lake Huron in Grand Bend early next month. The Is the Coast Clear? conference will bring environmental professionals, Indigenous communities, government officials and members of the public together

by: The Sun Times

tags: Education, Environmental Impact, Great Lakes, Lake Huron

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