What are the major threats to the Great Lakes in the United States and what’s being done to address them? Saul G., Racine, Wisc. The Great Lakes watershed is a unique and important ecosystem that ...

Going to the beach to soak up the sun and water is a hallmark of summers in the Great Lakes region. But according to a new study, your beach time is likely getting cut short by fecal bacteria. A study ...

Chautauqua Lake near the Veterans Memorial Bridge is pictured. The area is one where an application to use herbicides have been requested, but a positive jurisdictional determination under the state’s ...

TARSNEY LAKES, Mo. — In early August, at our Let's Talk event in Grain Valley, a viewer came up to me and said, "Tarsney Lake has a lily pad problem." "What kind of lily pad problem?" I asked. Lily ...

THE DAY. YEAH, IT IS BEING REPEATED, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. ERIN. WHILE THE TREE MAY BE GONE, YOU CAN SEE IT’S STILL HAVING AN IMPACT HERE. YOU CAN SEE THAT WIRE THAT IS HANGING LOW AS WELL AS THE ...

An algae bloom has formed in a canal leading from Grand Lake St. Marys, causing a terrible smell in the city of St. Marys and angering the small town’s mayor. The canal’s algae bloom is a mirror image ...