Great Lakes Updates

Commercial hunting and fishing guides would need state licenses under a proposal pending in a Michigan House committee. Supporters say that would provide additional safety for hunters and anglers if guides must carry liability insurance and know CPR and first aid.

Florida’s freshwater wonder is threatened like never before with a rising sea level as restoration efforts lag.

Cold weather stuns the lizards, which drop from trees, seemingly frozen or dead. Not to worry: The warm sun wakes them up again.

The Army Corps of Engineers is warning of damage and danger from rising Great Lakes water levels and winter storms.

A 2014 survey discovered that 19 Michigan state parks provided almost no healthy food options to visitors.

The bill would prohibit schools from stigmatizing students who owe lunch money or lack enough to buy a school meal.

The Detroit Institute of Arts is displaying photographer Jeff Gaydash’s work alongside Instagram submissions of the Great Lakes from the public in the Michigan Great Lakes exhibit.

Velvet worms, trapdoor spiders: Scientists worry about the fate of the nation’s many remarkable, overlooked endemic creatures.

On a flat stretch of highway in Washington State, tumbleweeds piled as high as 30 feet across an area three football fields long.

In three years, the administration has diminished the role of science in policymaking while disrupting research projects nationwide. Experts say the effects could be felt for years.