Recreation
Are you smarter than these high schoolers? Probably not.
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Great Lakes high schoolers test their knowledge of marine science in the Great Lakes Quiz Bowl. Registration for the 2016’s event starts today (Nov. 3).
Recreation
Minnesota-based artist travels around the Great Lakes in four months
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Current State talks with a Minnesota-based poet artist who traveled along all the Great Lakes shorelines this summer for his project H.O.M.E.S.
Water
Great Lakes Now coverage of Great Lakes Week 2015
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Great Lakes Week in Chicago has ended, but you can catch highlights here.
Nearshore
From mapmakers to moles, North Shore traces a Superior coast legacy
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A decade of deep archival research and on-the-ground observation lends perspective to a new environmental history in this new book.
Echo
Great Lakes Month in Review: Tar sands, Great Lakes Day, water retail
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At the end of each month Current State checks in with Great Lakes commentator and journalist Gary Wilson for updates on environmental stories from around the Basin.
Recreation
Exploring the magic of the Great Lakes through personal stories
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Most people who live in the mitten state have fond memories of time spent at one of the Great Lakes. Those memories are what fuel The Great Lakes Book Project.
Nearshore
Restoring Lake Erie’s largest wetland
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The Nature Conservancy has a five-year restoration of Erie Marsh now underway.
Water
Yellow jugs keep drugs from Great Lakes
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Reports continue to show increasing traces of pharmaceuticals in the Great Lakes. Until recently, it has been commonplace to simply throw away or flush unused and unwanted drugs. The Yellow Jugs Old Drugs program offers a solution to this issue.
Echo
Don’t let myth-making distort Great Lakes progress
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Gary Wilson takes a look at some of the common myths surrounding the Great Lakes and how they have come to be perceived as realities.
Echo
Only half the drugs in sewage are removed before entering Great Lakes
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The impact of most of these “chemicals of emerging concern” on the health of people and aquatic life remains unclear, according to the International Joint Commission.