Explore the impact of a proposed data center in Benton Harbor, a city grappling with infrastructure challenges and poverty.

Since it was passed by Congress and signed by President Nixon near the end of 1973 the Endangered Species Act served as the most powerful defense against natural resource exploitation that harmed ...

Not since DDT was introduced to U.S. agriculture to kill insects after World War Two has a farm chemical been as important to ...

Superior to Lake Huron and eventually to the rest of the lakes. The Soo Locks (the colloquial name) on the river handle up to 1,000-foot-long ships carrying bulk freight from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and ...

Wisconsin uses point source regulation to encourage adoption of nonpoint best management practices. Some 1.2 million pounds of phosphorus flow into Green Bay each year from the Fox River, according to ...

Blooms occur in Lake Erie’s western basin, Lake Michigan’s Green Bay and Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay. North America’s Great Lakes are the largest source of fresh surface water in the world. They are ...

Water restrictions, no doubt, will change agriculture in Sheridan County. But by switching crops and protecting the soil, the new math might work out just fine for individual farmers, say several ...

Effluent from sewage treatment plants is just one way that cities contribute phosphorus to waterways. Wastewater treatment upgrades and legislation banning phosphates in consumer detergents have ...

For more than a century, the U.S. Geological Survey has honed the science of water monitoring. The U.S. Geological Survey is the federal government’s premiere Earth science agency and the world’s gold ...

Explore the transformation of Muskegon Lake from polluted shores to a vibrant waterfront with luxury homes and restaurants.

SHERIDAN COUNTY, Kansas — Hydraulic pumps and mechanized irrigation equipment gave America’s Great Plains farmers access to seemingly limitless subterranean water wealth: the Ogallala Aquifer. Six ...