Congress is sending President Bush a bill that would extend for two years a federal program to clean up areas of pollution and contaminated sediment around the Great Lakes.
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is calling for a $5 billion trust fund for Great Lakes cleanup and restoration as he focuses on states critical to winning the White House.
The Senate voted Friday to ratify a compact to prevent the diversion of water from the Great Lakes, quickly approving legislation sought by the region's governors worried that thirsty places would covet one of the world's largest sources of fresh water.
Foreign species that slipped into the Great Lakes in ballast tanks of oceangoing cargo ships cost the regional economy at least $200 million a year, according to a University of Notre Dame study released Wednesday.
A compact designed to prevent remote regions or countries from tapping into the Great Lakes was approved Wednesday by the last of the eight states that surround one of the world's largest sources of fresh water.
A year ago, it seemed a proposed interstate compact designed to prevent thirstier regions from raiding the Great Lakes might be sunk by squabbles among the eight states with jurisdiction over the vast reservoir.
Gov. Jim Doyle has signed legislation making Wisconsin the fifth state to approve an interstate compact aimed at protecting the Great Lakes.
Seeking to build support for the ailing Great Lakes, lawmakers from the region are urging voters in their states to let the presidential candidates know how critical the issue is to them.
President Bush's proposed budget would shortchange efforts to clean up the Great Lakes and prevent the worsening of problems such as sewage overflows and exotic species invasions, critics said Wednesday.
Video images from the St. Clair River bottom show no evidence that erosion is causing water levels on Lakes Michigan and Huron to drop, scientists working for a U.S.-Canadian advisory group said Thursday.
Under pressure from Congress, a U.S.-Canadian agency Thursday agreed to quicken a study of whether erosion from dredging on the St. Clair River is causing water levels to plummet in Lakes Huron and Michigan.
The governors of the eight Great Lakes states worked for four years to write a plan that would protect their abundant water from being piped south to regions where booming populations face dwindling water supplies.
Laser pulses bounced off the surface of Antarctica by NASA's ICESat mission have revealed numerous areas of ice that either rose or sank due to highly pressurised water flooding into or out of subglacial lakes beneath (Image: Fricker et al/Science)
A little red lighthouse. Boardwalks. The blue-green waters of Lake Michigan stretching to the horizon. It's just another pretty-as-a-postcard view on the shores of this sleepy town of 5,700 a half-hour east of Green Bay. But how long the unspoiled vista in Algoma and in other communities along the Great Lakes will last is anybody's guess.
Thirteen months after millionaire thrill-seeker Steve Fossett mysteriously disappeared, authorities finally know what happened to his small airplane: It slammed into a mountain on a cloudy day.
A federal court Monday overturned the Bush administration's decision to remove gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the endangered species list.
A federal court Monday overturned the Bush administration's decision to remove gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the endangered species list.
A federal court Monday overturned the Bush administration's decision to remove gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the endangered species list.
Far below the Earth's surface, where the sun rarely penetrates, is a world of twinkling glow worms, precious gems and limestone caves and mountains, a land inhabited by nature alone.
As Australia experiences its worst drought in 100 years, farmers and residents across Australia's "food bowl" - the Murray Darling Basin - describe how it has affected their lives.
A trip to Northeast Oregon is an opportunity to witness where one of history's tragic stories begins. This is where the Nez Perce Indians spent their last free days, before going to a reservation.
The Gippsland Lakes, he predicts, are heading towards the same strangled fate as the Coorong in South Australia; not enough clean fresh water, ever higher salinity levels, alien algal blooms and pollution that kills even the hardy barnacles. But local independent MP Craig Ingram …
Garden Authority Steve Whysall offers a personal guided tour of VanDusen Gardens
A torrent coursed through a ruined and abandoned Chinese town Tuesday after soldiers blasted away debris holding back millions of gallons of water in one of the 30 so-called "quake lakes" created in the devastating earthquake last month.
Two Swedish contractors were arrested on Wednesday suspected of preparing to sabotage the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in southern Sweden, after traces of explosives were found on one of the men, police said.
It's spring and alligators are on the move -- and they are hungry. A famished gator will swallow just about anything, live or dead.
Six thousand years ago, northern Africa was a place of trees, grasslands, lakes and people. Today, it is the Sahara — a desolate area larger area than Australia.
The world does not lack the knowledge about how to build a water-secure future; it lacks the political will.
Rivers and lakes in northern Europe and North America that have turned brown are returning to a more natural, pre-industrialised state, a study says.
Oregon Boom View a video of the explosion! First come the blasts: The thunderous sounds of more than 100 tons of explosives ripping through tightly packed soil. Then, the water — more than 2,500 acres flooded.
The response to the worst drought on record in the Southeast has unfolded in ultra-slow motion.
It's raining trout in Colorado. The state Division of Wildlife is stocking hundreds of lakes with 325,000 fingerling trout dropped from modified Cessna 185 airplanes.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson saw for himself on Monday efforts to reverse environmental degradation around China's largest inland lake, taking the spotlight off currency tensions for a day.
Starved of water in the Soviet era, the shrivelled Aral bursts back into life and a port is reborn
It takes vigilance and a commitment to protecting the balance of native ecosystems to root out invasive species.
Cash may find it hard to believe but summer comes to Finland too. Nest week we will have temperature of 25/27 Celcius (77/82 Fahrenheit) in Monday and Tuesday. Today it was only 20 C (68F) but the day was nice.
Liquid gases, rather than water, fill the seas on one of Saturn's moons. That's according to instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which has found evidence for seas, likely filled with liquid methane or ethane, in the high northern latitudes of Titan.
Scientists have confirmed the existence of extensive network of waterways beneath a fast-moving sheet of Antarctic ice, providing clues on how "leaks" in the system affect the sea level and the ice sheets.
In the lower corner of eastern California, you'll find the Salton Sea. It's not really a sea, but it is the Golden State's largest lake and a prime resting spot for thousands of migrating birds. But the sea is evaporating — and getting too salty to sustain wildlife.