Chicago’s founding problem had always been plumbing. The city drew its drinking water from Lake Michigan…
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In 1996, MapQuest put maps online before Google Maps; why 30 years later it is refusing to rename Lake Ontario despite Donald Trump’s executive order
US President Donald Trump’s attempt to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America” has run into resistance…
Michigan plans to remove the century-old Sanback Dam in 2026, reopening a half-mile of cold-water stream, restoring 14 wetland acres and protecting more than 70 downstream miles
A century-old dam that no longer serves a purpose will be removed in Michigan in order…
Great Lakes: In America’s Great Lakes, invasive mussels made the water look cleaner but broke the food chain; native whitefish could now vanish from some areas within five years
A book published in 1888, Sandusky of To-Day, called lake whitefish Sandusky’s pride. For centuries, lake…
In 1988, zebra mussels arrived in North America through a ship’s ballast water; within 10 years, they had spread across all five Great Lakes
zebra mussels (Representative image by Canva) In the late 1980s, an aquatic invader quietly entered North…
Inside science’s ‘forbidden experiment’: Why scientists kill 9 million sea lampreys every year in the Great Lakes of America
At the June meet-and-greet organised by the GLFC, half a dozen sea lampreys posed for the…