Michigan’s transition to green energy is plagued by fights over placing wind and solar arrays on farmland and forests. But fewer balked over plans to build a green energy plant on abandoned industrial ...

Icebreaker is the last big hill in the last mile of the last major mountain bike race of the year in the U.S.: the Iceman Cometh Challenge. For professional mountain bikers, Iceman is the final chance ...

To get a better understanding of the issues surrounding bottled water in Ontario, Canada, Great Lakes Now spoke with activists and experts on the legal and environmental justice concerns related to ...

In brighter solar news, the first phase of a solar project at Minnesota’s Sherco coal plant started sending power onto the grid this fall. There are currently about 500,000 solar panels at the Xcel ...

Industrial agriculture in the Upper Midwest has been a driving force behind wetland loss. The farm bill might hold a solution ...

Oak trees in Michigan are being killed by oak wilt, a fungal infection that's spread by a beetle in the spring and summer.

How a port that receives about 2.5 million tons of cargo is also a haven for birds at the intersection of the Atlantic and ...

Flooding can destroy property and have serious effects on human health. And it can follow patterns of housing discrimination ...

The search for a site to store toxic waste from across the country has ended just north of Lake Superior, near Ignace, Ont.

As climate change increasingly shapes the Great Lakes region’s ecology and economy, scientists plan to use underwater robots ...