Experts say removal of the Boardman River dam is the biggest in Michigan history, and the largest-ever wetlands restoration in the Great Lakes region.

The University of Michigan is helping them with a new $1.2 million research project. Dubbed the “Great Lakes Adaptation Assessment for Cities,” the project teams researchers with city decision makers in five Great Lakes cities. They’ll provide the climate change science specifically for those communities.

Asian carp may be bottom-feeders, but they have high-class humor — sort of. Echo got a hold of the invasive game-changer via Twitter last week.

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Who’s eating whom in Lake Michigan?
The emergence of a few bad actors has made it difficult to answer that question.
That’s why University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee researchers are studying the impact of aquatic invasive species — specifically round gobies — on Lake Michigan food webs.

Gobies are a ravenous and aggressive fish species that invaded Great Lakes in the early 1990s. They subsist on tiny bottom-dwelling organisms and feed on baby quagga mussels for a side dish, scientists say.
Food web research from Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana may determine whether Lake Michigan has reached …

A new method of battling the blood-sucking sea lamprey involves an unlikely odor: the smell of its putrefied flesh.

We need to encourage water conservation and support its treatment and distribution.
Elected officials don’t see a political future in telling constituents to use less and pay more for it.

Giant volcanoes formed the Great Lakes in prehistoric times.
Not quite, but that’s what seven percent of U.S. 12th-grade students guessed on geography tests last year.
More than half of students got it right: The Great Lakes formed when large volumes of freshwater melted from ice sheets and settled into depressed land.
A recent segment of Yahoo! Who Knew? highlights a low level of geography knowledge among American students — only 20 percent scored proficient or better on tests in 2010.
The U.S. team also lost to Russia, Canada and Taiwan at the World …

A long-buried stream hidden beneath Detroit may soon break free from concrete shackles and become a centerpiece of green development.

If it’s a beauty pageant, then Lake Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes is certainly the crowd favorite.
Good Morning America voters recently named it one of the most beautiful places in the country. And its 35 miles of sandy beaches and crystal waters earned it a top spot on a beach expert’s best Great Lakes beaches in July.
Host Josh Elliott visited Lake Michigan’s best-kept secret and called the dunes “stunning monuments to the passage of time.” They formed when ice sheets melted and formed glacial lakes, pushing rock debris to the shoreline.
Now …