The creators of the CLEANR filtration system says it can remove 90% of microplastics from the wash cycle. Studies show washing machines are a primary source of microplastic pollution.

Lake Erie is plagued by toxic cyanobacterial blooms fed by phosphorus runoff from farm fields. Michigan is struggling to reduce the pollution by 40%.

Residents want to know if the area’s industrial past is tied to Marion County health department study findings.

More energy news with a Michigan coal plant ordered to stay open and Ohio’s new energy law bringing big changes.

The Army Corps says Line 5 project would pose short-term effects to surface water, as well as permanent wetland loss.

House Bill 15 forbids settlements to close or curtail ​“base load” power plants, which exclude renewables. The law may pave ...

Because many of the standard scientific practices of the time conflicted with the Tribe’s cultural beliefs, the Tribe ...

A new trail system aims to connect eight states, communities and ecosystems along the world’s largest freshwater system.

Tom Farnquist is in the business of preserving underwater artifacts and displaying them in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The problem is, a lot of those artifacts were technically stolen from the ...