Great Lakes

Great Lakes economist John Austin looks at the economic divide in the region and how it might be bridged.

The Ojibwe and other tribes made their home on Madeline Island for years before European contact. “Passages” shares the story of the Ojibwe’s journey to this prophesied island as told through their ancestors' eyes.

A Bubbler Talk listener asks how Lake Michigan often has several shades of blue at once.

Echo, a UW-Milwaukee Freshwater Sciences graduate student, teaches young people at the K-12 level about freshwater systems and conservation through their underwater performances as Mermaid Echo.

Calling it the "largest ever clean-up under EPA’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to address Milwaukee Area of Concern" officials Thursday celebrated a $450 million infusion that will help remove contaminated sediments from the estuary.

The Environmental Protection Agency has been sampling all five Great Lakes for four decades. For over 30 of those years, the mission has been accomplished aboard the Lake Guardian, the EPA’s Great Lakes research vessel.

UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences' students study complex freshwater ecosystems, weather patterns, and climate change and then apply that knowledge to real-world problems. One of the school's founding faculty members, Rebecca Klaper, is about to become the school's dean.

Phosphorus is an element that’s critical to all life on earth, including the food we eat. But it’s also causing significant harm to our environment. Milwaukee writer Dan Egan has taken on the topic in his new book called, The Devil’s Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance.

Over the last four years, Adam Tindall-Schlicht shepherded Milwaukee’s port through storms, fluctuating lake levels and the happy arrival of a Great Lakes cruise ship. He's now transferring his expertise to a new job as administrator of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.

Lake Michigan is in fair condition—not poor, but not good either. That assessment was shared by a more than century-old, binational commission during a webinar Tuesday evening.