Great Lakes Updates

Climate change and habitat conversion to agriculture are working together to homogenize nature. In other words, the more things change, the more they are the same.

The sights on the shores of Africa's Lake Malawi differ slightly from those on our Great Lakes (you may find a crocodile or two), but there are similarities as well.

Scientists say we need to improve our information about little-known species to reduce the risk of one going extinct just because no-one is interested in looking for it.

Scientists use sonar to estimate Antillean Manatee populations in the murky waters of Panama's internationally protected San San Pond Sak wetlands.

Before airplanes and 911 calls became the prominent ways to discover forest fires, forests were monitored from fire lookout towers.

Invasive mussels and less nutrients from tributaries have altered the Lake Michigan ecosystem, making it more conducive to the stocking of lake trout and steelhead than Chinook salmon, according to a recent US Geological Survey and Michigan State University study.

Scientists have discovered a new type of plant growing in Shetland -- with its evolution only having occurred in the last 200 years.

Citizen scientists are the key to new findings for a Minnesota project that tracks bees, including the endangered rusty patched bumble bee.

Two women are walking from Lake Michigan to Lake Superior to raise awareness of Great Lakes conservation. And they'll do it in one month.

This spring's heavy rain in the Lake Ontario region had quite an impact on homeowners, but it also affected the water offshore.