Scientists are urging the US and Canadian governments to take swift action after discovering high levels of microplastic ...

When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...

The small plastic particles are "ubiquitous" in Great Lakes water, sediment, plants, fish and beaches, an international panel ...

and how important fishing has been historically to the Great Lakes, and how in the middle of the 20th century, the fish that most people cared about nearly completely disappeared." Academy Award ...