A new collaborative center aims to bring together government, academia and industry to study the corridor from Lake Huron to Lake Erie, with an emphasis on Lake St. Clair and its watershed. The Huron to Erie Alliance for...

Indian Space Research Organisation scientists documented about 4,699 lakes and wetlands in the Himalaya Mountain Range, all at an altitude greater than 3,000 meters above mean sea level, according to a Times of India article. Scientists performed...

Michigan Technological University’s Great Lakes Research Center has just turned one year old and is already immersed in studying the Great Lakes. According to a Detroit broadcaster, administrators at the center hired more scientists and faculty so...

As Chicago suburbs expand, their residents are looking increasingly to Lake Michigan for drinking water, according to Medill Reports Chicago. The lake, which has already been substantially tapped, may not be able to provide enough. Unless conservation...

The director of a Minnesota lake association wrote in a guest column for the Minnesota Sun that the state has huge looming responsibilities to clean and restore its water bodies. “Many of Minnesota’s lakes, including several bays on Lake...

Researchers from a Swiss university found plastic particulate is widespread in Lake Geneva, according to a press release from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The researchers sampled the lake in several ways to quantify microplastic pollution....

Scientists in the mountains of Guatemala are working to conserve a lake in a region where people can’t afford to put food on the table.

The University of Michigan Water Center, which launched in October 2012, has awarded $570,000 in research grants, according to a release. Each grant is for two years and the awards  top out at $50,000. Multiple researchers and...

Two autonomous underwater vehicles are drifting through Lake Ontario, monitoring a slew of environmental metrics, according to a release from New York Sea Grant. The high-tech equipment is recording data on fish productivity, food web changes and...

Real-time water quality predictions all 24 of Chicago’s Lake Michigan beaches this summer will let swimmers know if the water is free of harmful bacteria, according to the Chicago Tribune. The monitoring is an expansion of a...