Great Lakes Updates

These fish turn up in many surprising location, but this was one place scientists didn’t expect to find them.

Over the past 20 years, Great Lakes water levels have gone from sustained multiyear lows to multiyear highs. Climate change is accelerating the transition between dry phases and wet phases.

The National Parks Conservation Association examined air pollution at 417 National Park Service properties and concluded that 96 percent of them “are plagued by significant air pollution problems."

Air pollution research is among the top priorities of the Environment and Climate Change Canada sector of the government.

A 2015 Duke University-led study found radioactive contaminants, such as byproducts of uranium and thorium, can be highly concentrated in this ash.

No one region of Illinois is safe from contamination of groundwater from coal ash.

Researchers are experimenting with a Rube Goldberg-esque mix of tactics to control hearty, nonnative swimmers that re-engineer nutrient-rich Midwest waters.

As temperatures warm across America, gardeners and growers are seeing flowers, shrubs, and trees shifting northward.

The state wants to roll back protections on millions of acres of forest land owned by U.S. taxpayers.

Worms are wriggling into Earth’s northernmost forests, creating major unknowns for climate-change models.