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he shrinking number of farms in Michigan – down by about 1,300 between 2023 and 2024 – and the trend of existing farms to expand to survive is changing the culture of rural communities.

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Energy company Enbridge has finally started work on rerouting an aging oil pipeline around a tribal reservation in northern Wisconsin after seven years of legal wrangling, moving ahead despite two new lawsuits that still could delay the project indefinitely. Read the full story by the Associated Press.

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On Friday, February 20, the Wisconsin Assembly unanimously passed two bills to help residents with PFAS mitigation after 30 months of debate. Governor Tony Evers approved $125 million for PFAS cleanup in 2023, but Republican lawmakers disagreed with how the funds would be distributed. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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The “nurdles” that scattered along I-196 and into Michigan’s Kalamazoo river after a January 27 semi-truck crash are the same industrial pellets that researchers have been finding for years on Great Lakes beaches, underscoring the threat of microplastics to Great Lakes ecosystems. Read the full story by MLive.

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Although this year is an exception, Lake Erie has seen more low‑ or no‑ice winters over the past 50 years. With less ice, storms are more likely to drive water inland. Officials are developing new ways to protect shorelines from sudden flooding and longer storm seasons. Read the full story by the New York Times.

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For one day last week, Lake Superior gave thousands of people a rare gift — then took it back. The Apostle Islands ice caves, accessible for the first time since 2015, drew visitors from across the country before a winter storm shattered the ice shelf less than 24 hours after they opened. Read the full story by the Ashland Daily Press.

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The AquaHacking Challenge is a free program challenging students, researchers, and professionals to safeguard the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence. The launch of the challenge celebrates the program’s 10th anniversary and its expanding footprint across the United States and Canada. Read the full story by WDIV-TV – Detroit, MI.

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Peer-reviewed studies have detected microplastics in Lake Michigan and the other Great Lakes. The findings raise urgent questions about what everyday plastic use is sending into the lake and the millions of people who rely on it. Read the full story by The Fulcrum.

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A recent study featuring Grand Rapids, Michigan suggests that climate migration may not significantly change how some cities grow.

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When it comes to our Great Lakes priorities, how are our representatives in Washington doing and where should they focus their efforts in 2026? Thanks to Great Lakes advocates like you, Congress recently passed legislation that rejected steep cuts and instead protected funding for programs critical to the health of our lakes and the people who depend on them. At the same time, the Great Lakes enter 2026 with a reduced federal presence due to program pullbacks and staff reductions. Our just-released federal priorities lay out a 2026 agenda for decision makers. Hear from our team and ask your questions about the Great Lakes and Washington.

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Scott and Shelly Christie didn’t set out to restore a field. When they bought their place in Waushara County in 2010, the plan was practical. The farmhouse could hold office space for Shelly’s landscaping business. The open ground could store equipment. And like a lot of rural properties, part of the acreage could be [...]

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As goes Iron Range iron ore pellet production, so goes the iron ore docks in Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin. Iron ore tonnage shipped from the Port of Duluth-Superior fell 14.9 percent in 2025 compared to 2024. Read the full story by the Mesabi Tribune.

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Local groups in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are promoting National Invasive Species Awareness Week by educating the public and organizing efforts to protect ecosystems, such as cleaning boats to prevent the spread of invasive species and planning spring removal and native planting activities. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – Negaunee, MI.  

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A coalition of Wisconsin environmental advocacy groups filed a lawsuit Monday challenging an administrative law judge’s decision to uphold the Department of Natural Resource’s permit approval to reroute the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline across northern Wisconsin. A similar lawsuit has also been filed by the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. The tribe for years has fought against the pipeline, which currently runs across its land.  Read the full story by the Wisconsin Examiner.

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An unusually snowy 2025–2026 season has helped draw tourists to northern Wisconsin’s outdoor winter attractions like the Apostle Islands ice caves, but many locals and industry groups say that reliably snowy winters are becoming less common and more unpredictable. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a long-running dispute over the fate of an oil and gas pipeline in the Great Lakes. Michigan state officials had sued a Canadian company that operates a section of the pipeline, known as Line 5, which snakes under the Straits of Mackinac between Michigan’s Lower and Upper Peninsulas. Read the full story by The New York Times.

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If you go ice fishing around Door County and have a shanty out on the bay of Green Bay or Lake Michigan, you’ve got a little more than two weeks left to get the shanty off the ice. Read the full story by Green Bay Press-Gazette.

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With frequent sub-freezing temperatures in Michigan this winter, it has been a great year for ice fishing. Stable ice conditions have allowed anglers the opportunity to get out on the ice and participate in a northern winter tradition. Read the full story by the Lasco Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20260225-gennessee-county-fishing-opportunities

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On Friday, February 20 the Wisconsin Assembly unanimously passed two bills to help residents with PFAS mitigation after 30 months of debate. Gov. Tony Evers approved $125 million for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) cleanup in 2023, but Republican lawmakers disagreed with how the funds would be distributed, including the need to add protections for businesses and “innocent landowners” or people who bought contaminated property but weren’t responsible for the original spill. One bill allows for a series of grants to pay for testing and remediation, while the other bill exempts certain businesses and people from having to pay for cleanup, including any municipal services who use PFAS for emergencies by using firefighting foam.

In Minnesota, a study suggests about 99% of PFAS can be destroyed while turning solid waste into energy and ash at combustion facilities. Incineration is often seen as a controversial method for dealing with “forever chemicals” because it is still unclear if the substances only contribute to air pollution through manufacturing, or if incineration only works under very specific circumstances (at a certain temperature, and for a certain amount of time) without further contributing to the problem. 

The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) received a rate request from Illinois American Water for approximately $577 million to fund upgrades related to emerging contaminations like PFAS and continuing to replace lead service lines. According to CBS News, this proposed rate increase would mean an additional $14 a month for residential water customers and $28 a month for those with sanitary wastewater systems. 

This is the fourth rate hike in a decade. In an interview with CBS News, Chicago resident Susan Srail said that residents are already billed “…at the least, $180 a month. There are some people that are paying $300 a month.”

Recent reporting by Bridge Michigan suggests that PFAS levels are actually declining in Great Lakes fish. A study published in January 2026 used archived trout and walleye samples from 1975 to 2020 to track pollutants. Researchers found that average contamination levels reached their lowest by 2020. For example, PFAS in freeze-dried tissue samples from fish in Lake Erie “peaked at close to 450 nanograms per gram in 2005 but were closer to 50 nanograms per gram in 2020.”

Two bills related to “forever chemicals” passed through the New York State Senate, and now await final votes in the state Assembly. One bill will expand regulation of chemical discharge in the state’s groundwater, lakes and rivers. The other bill will restrain PFAS in consumer products like cookware, cleaning products and dental floss, according to WAMC. 

Meanwhile, a new permit is under consideration at the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to help expand the state’s data center boom. The new permit would allow data centers to discharge wastewater right into rivers and streams. According to Circle of Blue: “the Ohio permit would apply to water that circulates through data centers to absorb heat from servers, towers and boilers. Recent investigations have shown that chemicals such as PFAS and nitrates, which are harmful to human health, are a part of these effluents, or untreated discharges.”

Testing at Pittsburgh International Airport shows that PFAS levels of one particular compound are over 15,000 times the EPA’s safety levels. The airport sits on the Montour Run watershed, which leads to the Ohio River and is a source of drinking water for millions of Americans. 

More PFAS news in case you missed it:

  • In Canada, reporting from the CBC shows that Transport Canada was worried about PFAS in the 1980s according to files obtained through an access-to-information request.
  • The burden of advocacy falls on Indiana firefighters facing PFAS-related cancers
  • Three Olympic boardsport athletes were disqualified over their use of wax containing “forever chemicals.”
  • An op-ed penned by cardiologist Dr. Pierce Vatterott for The Hill makes the case for why medical care requires the use of some per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. 
  • The U.S. Forest Service will stop issuing gasoline and water repellant pants for firefighters that contain PFAS. This move was inspired by original reporting by ProPublica.

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The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan, Circle of Blue, Great Lakes Now, Michigan Public and The Narwhal who work together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water. This independent journalism is supported by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

The cold snap held its grip on southern Ontario for weeks. On the shores of Lake Erie, some speculated this could be the year the ice makes it all the way across — something that hasn’t happened in three decades.

Erie, the shallowest of the Great Lakes, typically sees the most ice cover. Still, the most recent full freeze-up was in 1996, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data.

On a Sunday in early February, as ice cover crept over 95 per cent, locals and visitors braved frigid temperatures to look out across the frozen surface. 

Among them was photographer Carlos Osorio, who captured the lake and the people who set out across it — on foot, studded-tire bicycle or all-terrain vehicle. Wind had sculpted blowing snow into rippling waves, as if the water, on a blustery summer day, suddenly stood still.

“It’s really amazing to see it like this, when we usually see it in the summer and there’s all these water sounds, and now it’s so still; so still, so quiet,” Eleanor, who drove down to the beach at Port Dover, Ont., with her husband, Frank, said.

“When you think about water freezing, you think about smooth ice, and then you come here and the ice almost looks like frozen waves,” Frank said. “You can just imagine the water swelling up and down, but it’s not, it’s just frozen.”

The lighthouse in Port Maitland, Ont., stretches out into the frozen waves of Lake Erie.
Jay Augustine, a four-year resident of Crystal Beach, Ont., rode his bike with studded tires on the frozen lake.
Fort Erie, Ont., sits on Lake Erie’s northern shore, where wind stirred up the snow and ice pushed up over the beach.
With much of the lake frozen over, some people headed out in search of fish. A few ice fishing huts dotted the Lake Erie shore and nearby waterways, but some locals said there were more in previous years.
In Port Colborne, Ont., the Welland Canal that opens into Lake Erie froze over in the cold snap of early 2026.
The town of Crystal Beach, Ont., crawls with tourists in the summer, but the snow-covered sand and piers sat quiet on a cold day in February.

“This is exceptional,” Gerald Meyering said, marveling at the amount of ice and snow on the lake, compared to recent mild winters.

— With files from Carlos Osorio

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In September of 2025, dozens of people with indigenous roots from across the Great Lakes gathered on the banks of Michigan’s Au Sable River to harvest manoomin– or wild rice– the traditional way.

Manoomin is making a comeback in the Great Lakes. Once bountiful across the region, its existence has been threatened by dams and environmental pressures. Today, there is an effort among Anishinaabek peoples to restore and reconnect with this culturally important food.

Learn more on the Great Lakes Now YouTube channel.

This story was co-produced by Great Lakes Now, @OneDetroit, and BridgeDetroit.

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By Bauyrzhan Zhaxylykov

Bankruptcies of Michigan farmers are troubling despite a dip in their Chapter 12 filings last year. Major reasons are higher expenses for inputs such as fertilizer coupled with flat commodity prices.

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Target Conservation: Alternative Management for Increased Profits By Johnny Behrendt, Pheasants Forever | Written for the Winter 2025 Basin Buzz A common deterrent to the incorporation of conservation in farm business planning is the idea that it comes at a cost: fewer acres means less profits. While this may be [...]

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In Traverse City, Michigan, crews are pouring a massive sorting channel that will form the core of the FishPass project, a globally unique structure in northern Michigan that’s designed to let native fish move upstream while blocking harmful invasive species like sea lamprey. Read the full story by MLive.

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The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has filed a petition with Wisconsin’s Iron County Circuit Court to review a decision allowing Enbridge’s Line 5 reroute project to move forward as well as put a stop to construction until the Court considers their legal claims. Read the full story by the Wisconsin Public Radio.

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The community-led Indigenous water research initiative, Ohneganos Ohnegahdę:gyo, has worked to address water insecurity through holistic capacity building grounded in Indigenous knowledge. These efforts will be expanded through a new Haudenosaunee Environmental Research Institute with Indigenous partnering hubs across the Great Lakes region. Read the full story by the Great Lakes Echo.

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Part of Arcadia Dunes: The C.S. Mott Nature Preserve, Overlook Trail is a popular, universally accessible path that starts at Baldy Trailhead, just north of Arcadia off the M-22 scenic byway. All year round, this short walk through the woods ends with dazzling views of Lake Michigan from atop a high bluff. Read the full story by MLive.

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Minnesota officials are calling on the city of Duluth to pay for a mistake believed to have led to a Tischer Creek fish kill that began in 2024. The city released about 1.7 million gallons from a drinking water reservoir into a designated trout stream causing damage along a 2-mile stretch of the waterway. Read the full story by Duluth News Tribune.

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The New York Department of State is developing an immersive extended reality experience and modular exhibit highlighting at least two “iconic” shipwrecks in what’s now the federally designated Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary. Read the full story by WXXI – Rochester, NY.

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PFAS are posing a threat to the Great Lakes, one of America’s most vital water resources. Here’s what we’re learning about how PFAS are getting into the lakes, the risks they’re posing, and how to reduce those risks in the future. Read the full story by the Ohio Capital Journal.

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The Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary has launched a recruitment campaign for volunteer search and rescue crew members. The unit provides marine search and rescue support across Lakes Erie and St. Clair and the Detroit River. Read the full story by The Windsor Star.

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Almost a century ago, arctic grayling vanished from Michigan’s waters. Explore an effort to restore this long-lost fish. In Ontario, citizen scientists work to understand the damage that road salt is doing to local waterways. Author and forester Ethan Tapper discusses what it means to love a forest.

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The Six Nations of the Grand River face ongoing water insecurity from pollution, climate change and corporate extraction. Many years of Indigenous water advocacy have led to the development of a new Haudenosaunee Environmental Research Institute as the next step to overcome these challenges.

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Flint, Michigan, is known for having significantly higher-than-average water rates, with residents paying some of the highest water bills in the nation, even after the Flint Water Crisis. Residents are facing a proposed 6.83% rise in water rates in 2026.  Read the full story by the Flint Courier News.

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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced the release of proposed changes to coolwater sportfish regulations that will help protect fish while spawning, increase the reproductive capacity of walleye in Lake Ontario’s eastern basin, and eliminate unnecessary special regulations. Read the full story by Lake Placid News.

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Saginaw Bay supports a productive fishery today, but much of its historic habitat was lost decades ago. Rock reefs are a critical habitat, and rebuilding reefs does not recreate the past — but it strengthens the ecological foundation needed to support resilient fish populations in the future. Read the full story by the Ludington Daily News.

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Freighters cruise up and down the Detroit River, returning from or headed to the Great Lakes. But what happens when those freighters need something from the mainland? It turns out these boats utilize a unique mail service in Detroit that has been operating for more than 150 years. Read the full story by the Michigan Public.

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If you’ve noticed fewer birds in the sky recently, they haven’t all flown south for the winter. The North American bird population has dropped nearly 30% in the last 50 years. Mariette Nowak's book "Birdscaping for Wisconsin and the Great Lakes Region" offers a solution: birdscaping.

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