Lake Erie ice-coverage continues to increase and it's now at 91 percent. Lake Erie has the highest ice-coverage since January ...

Lakes, natural and man-made, provide water, food and habitats for wildlife, and also support local economies. Around the ...

Hikers in New Zealand risk polluting the “clearest lake in the world” with a microscopic alga carried on their boots.

Legal action continues in efforts at cleaning up a portion of Ohio's waterways. The Ohio EPA has been added as a defendant, ...

When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...

The small plastic particles are "ubiquitous" in Great Lakes water, sediment, plants, fish and beaches, an international panel ...

Chris Langer is the director and producer of "Ripples of Plastic," a 2024 documentary dealing with the growing waste of ...

A West Virginia University researcher is working to understand and estimate environmental cleanup costs associated with agricultural runoff that causes polluted "dead zones" in downstream coastal ...

Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution in the environment dating to around 5,200 years ago ...

Yesterday, four fishermen found themselves in a perilous situation when they became stranded on an ice floe on Lake Erie. The Catawba Island Volunteer Fire Department, U.S. Coast Guard from ...