The Great Lakes Now monthly television program is produced by Detroit PBS in partnership with a network of PBS affiliates around the region. Shooting on location in eight states and Canada, the magazine-style show brings viewers stories about the recreational, economic, scientific, political and environmental issues related to the Great Lakes and drinking water.

2024年11月22日 · After decades of work, fishery managers say lake trout have fully recovered in most of Lake Superior after the invasive, fish-killing sea lamprey decimated their numbers.

2024年6月6日 · When Gretchen Whitmer campaigned for Michigan governor in 2018, she took aim at Michigan’s bottled water industry — and the state policy that gave it unfettered access to free water.

2025年3月12日 · In 2024 when Donald Trump as a presidential candidate proposed piping water from British Columbia, Canada to California, his statement was largely dismissed as campaign rhetoric.. Once he was elected, Canadians started paying attention but the potential water grab was seen as logistically and politically problematic and unlikely to gain traction.

2025年3月25日 · Environmental Protection Agency Director Lee Zeldin issued guidance to limit federal protections for wetlands last week that environmental advocates say will lead to more pollution in the Great Lakes. The definition of the “waters of the United States” in the Clean Water Act is an ongoing point of contention between farms, businesses, real estate interests, and environmentalists, with ...

2025年3月25日 · IN THIS EPISODE: In this episode of Great Lakes Now, fighting invasive phragmites on the Lake Huron shoreline, mapping the lake bottom and the things that live there and the future of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.

2024年3月22日 · Native to the Atlantic, sea lampreys were observed in Lake Ontario in the early 1800s, though confined by Niagara Falls. But by the 1900s, they had migrated through the Welland Canal into Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes. This long, eel-like parasitic fish has a circular mouth with more than a hundred sharp, bony teeth.

2024年12月10日 · By Daniel Macfarlane This story is an excerpt from Daniel Macfarlane’s book The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History. The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan, Circle of Blue, Great Lakes Now at Detroit PBS, Michigan Public and The Narwhal who work together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging ...

2025年3月27日 · On March 14, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said that perhaps Lake Erie should be changed to Lake Ohio. According to reporting from Cleveland.com: “Anybody think if there’s a Lake Michigan, maybe there should be a Lake Ohio around here?”

2025年3月21日 · A tropical lake in Central Africa might not seem like the first place you would look to gain insights into North America’s Great Lakes. But that’s just what researchers from Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in Ohio have been doing for the past three years.