For 118 years, Michigan State University Extension has existed to serve the public with programs ranging from canning classes ...

More PFAS news with a “cover-up” in Canada’s North Bay, and Wisconsin legislators estimate pollution cleanup could cost ...

Before farms and suburbs, the Great Black Swamp thrived. Restoring it could help curb Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms today.

Environmental groups warn the proposal to change the definition of "waters of the United States" would eliminate crucial safeguards for "countless" bodies of water.

Invasive zebra and quagga mussels are to blame for the decline. Voracious filter feeders, they siphon away the food that baby ...

Bensalem, Pennsylvania, USA - February 7, 2019; Firefighting foam remains on the ground surface following a tanker truck accident. EPA tests show that aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) used to fight ...

The way J. Ellen Marsden remembers it, when she first suggested calling a new Great Lakes invasive species the quagga mussel, her colleague laughed, so the name stuck. At the same time, it was no ...

Shortly after Chelsea Rochman started her faculty job at the University of Toronto, she began working with the Government of Canada to sample microplastics in fish from Lake Ontario. What she found, ...

In 2024 when Donald Trump as a presidential candidate proposed piping water from British Columbia, Canada to California, his statement was largely dismissed as campaign rhetoric. Once he was elected, ...