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 Great Lakes have been brutally compromised over the years, by overfishing and industrial pollution for example, and more recently by the outbreak of toxic algal blooms in Lake Erie. Perhaps the ...

Both projects—Ontario Place and Highway 413—threaten the ecological health of the Great Lakes and surrounding ecosystems. An ...

The funding will support projects such as the work to clean up the Hamilton Harbour and, monitoring of nutrient and bacterial contamination in the Chedoke Creek and Red Hill Creek watersheds.

Bradford council endorses non-binding agreement with Ontario government for phosphorus-reduction facility in town ...

An environmental group says the Wabi River, that flows into Lake Temiskaming, north of North Bay, faces environmental and public health risks from pesticide contamination, pollution and sedimentation.

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

The Great Lakes are losing about 14 winter days every decade, according to a recent study published in the Environmental ...