Scientists studying the Great Lakes have found unsettling amounts of microplastics. Research shows that the tiny fragments of plastic pollution have high levels of contamination. According to a report ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As issues like algal blooms and microplastics stymie regulators, the Great Lakes also saw improvements for other parts of the ...

From litter to invasives, the Great Lakes have their share of problems. At least a few dozen "nurdles" were discovered in just two hours by a team of 17 volunteers on June 22, 2024. Zebra and quagga ...

Michigan’s Grand Haven State Park is a little chilly for swimming and sand castles in early May, but the weather is perfect for a cleanup crew combing the shore of Lake Michigan. Volunteers working ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The plastic showing up in the Great Lakes doesn’t arrive in one dramatic spill. It slips in piece by piece — blown off land, flushed through sewers, shed from everyday products and ...

Candy wrappers. Cigarette butts. Chip bags. The litter you see on the side of the street doesn’t just present a public nuisance where it’s dropped. It’s one of the more serious emerging pollution ...

A new study by Rochester Institute of Technology that inventories and tracks high concentrations of plastic in the Great Lakes could help inform cleanup efforts and target pollution prevention.

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, ...

As experts gathered in Geneva this month to negotiate an enforceable global plastic pollution treaty, scientists studying the Great Lakes continued their research that could pinpoint how microplastics ...

As issues like algal blooms and microplastics stymie regulators, the Great Lakes also saw improvements for other parts of the region. New technology is ridding large plastic pollution while piping ...