More PFAS news with a “cover-up” in Canada’s North Bay, and Wisconsin legislators estimate pollution cleanup could cost ...

Invasive zebra and quagga mussels are to blame for the decline. Voracious filter feeders, they siphon away the food that baby ...

Before farms and suburbs, the Great Black Swamp thrived. Restoring it could help curb Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms today.

Rob Green has worked in non-fiction television for more than 20 years, making shows about history, science, food, travel, and more—and telling a range of stories broad enough to include high risk SWAT ...

The race to save whitefish, a restaurant with local flavors and the Erie Canal turns 200.

Great Lakes Now takes students — and adults — to Lake Erie’s coastal wetlands. Find the videos below. Meanwhile, find all of the Great Lakes Now educational content HERE. NEW IN 2022: A new collection ...

The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television; and Michigan Radio, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; who work together to bring ...

The way J. Ellen Marsden remembers it, when she first suggested calling a new Great Lakes invasive species the quagga mussel, her colleague laughed, so the name stuck. At the same time, it was no ...

In 2024 when Donald Trump as a presidential candidate proposed piping water from British Columbia, Canada to California, his statement was largely dismissed as campaign rhetoric. Once he was elected, ...

Shortly after Chelsea Rochman started her faculty job at the University of Toronto, she began working with the Government of Canada to sample microplastics in fish from Lake Ontario. What she found, ...

Detroit Public TV’s Great Lakes Bureau continues to explore the political, social and environmental issues surrounding our most precious natural resource – water. In a time of cultural turmoil, deep ...

This story is the first in a nine-month investigation of drinking water contamination across the U.S. The series is supported by funding from the Park Foundation and Water Foundation. Once a week, ...