Not since DDT was introduced to U.S. agriculture to kill insects after World War Two has a farm chemical been as important to ...

Explore the history of the Great Lakes fishery and the efforts to replenish fish populations in Michigan's waters.

Superior to Lake Huron and eventually to the rest of the lakes. The Soo Locks (the colloquial name) on the river handle up to 1,000-foot-long ships carrying bulk freight from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and ...

MUSKEGON—New luxury homes, yacht slips, and trendy hotels and restaurants are cropping up along the glittering waterfront of this west Michigan city. Nothing unusual for the Lake Michigan coast, long ...

SHERIDAN COUNTY, Kansas — Hydraulic pumps and mechanized irrigation equipment gave America’s Great Plains farmers access to seemingly limitless subterranean water wealth: the Ogallala Aquifer. Six ...

LINCOLN COUNTY, Nebraska – Though it looks like nothing more than a deep trench cutting across corn stubble and dark winter soil, the big water pipeline that construction workers are about to complete ...

Wisconsin uses point source regulation to encourage adoption of nonpoint best management practices. Some 1.2 million pounds of phosphorus flow into Green Bay each year from the Fox River, according to ...

Blooms occur in Lake Erie’s western basin, Lake Michigan’s Green Bay and Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay. North America’s Great Lakes are the largest source of fresh surface water in the world. They are ...

A national park’s wildlife, allure, and purpose are challenged by a green mess. EMPIRE, Michigan — In 1970 the United States Congress authorized land purchases to establish Sleeping Bear Dunes ...

Effluent from sewage treatment plants is just one way that cities contribute phosphorus to waterways. Wastewater treatment upgrades and legislation banning phosphates in consumer detergents have ...