Nearshore

Great Lakes month in review: nuclear waste, pipelines, algae

By Gary Wilson | August 4, 2015

Current State reviews this month’s biggest environmental stories from around the basin, including algae blooms, nuclear waste and oil pipelines.

Fort Mackinac celebrates 200 years in American hands

By WKAR Current State | July 28, 2015

The Mackinac State Historic Parks system is celebrating Fort Mackinac’s bicentennial.

Mr. Great Lakes on Michigan lighthouse sale, conservation and community solar

By Jeff Kart | July 20, 2015

Mr. Great Lakes covers lighthouses, conserved land and a new community solar program.

Great Lakes govs whiff on algae; can they hit a diversion home run?

By Gary Wilson | July 6, 2015

This class of Great Lakes governors has one more shot at prioritizing the region’s water interests over those of their respective states.

Record rains could produce record algae; farmers gain support for longterm solution

By Karen Schaefer | July 3, 2015

Michigan official: The problem didn’t happen overnight and won’t get fixed overnight

Help Echo justify buying a news-gathering submarine

By David Poulson | July 1, 2015

By David Poulson

Here at Echo we’ve written lots about drones and even experimented with using them as a potential news-reporting platform. It’s challenging to take the concept very far as federal authorities try to sort through how to regulate them. Now there may be a way to do something similar underwater. TT Robotix has indicated it will come out with a remotely controlled submersible capable of taking a Go-Pro camera more than 30 feet under water. It can remotely take still and video images and even stream what the camera sees as it sees it.