Scientists are developing batteries based on paper, made from fresh-water algae—the stringy stuff that washes up on beaches and clogs your water-intake strainer.
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A WWII Navy Hellcat fighter plane was pulled from Lake Michigan last weekend, the second trainer plane to be recovered this year, and the sixth since the end of the war.
The Lauren Harris sketch, "Old Stump, Lake Superior," sold for $3.5 million at auction.
The on-line Great Lakes Echo is cataloging recent songs about the Great Lakes, and looking for songs they may have missed.
ScienceDaily (Nov.
Michigan Tech University will soon be building a new research center for studies of the Great Lakes. Details here.
Tiara Yachts of Holland, Michigan—in a year of slow boat sales—has formed a sister company to build wind turbine blades. Info here...
November 7-10 is the anniversary of the Great Storm of 1913, usually considered the worst Great Lakes storm of recorded history.
President Obama has signed into law a $475 million Great Lakes clean-up bill. News story here...
Nearly 100 GLCC members and guests attended the recent Annual General Meeting and Change of Watch Ceremony at Windsor, ON. J.E.
GLCC members Bill and Sylvia Mueller spent the last 19 years building their 52-foot cutter Eos, and have now successfully embarked on
Ohio Attorney General to appeal court decision on Lake Erie waterfront land rights.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Thursday to provide $6 million for continuing efforts to thwart the Asian carp from penetrating the Great Lakes in what environmentalists fear would destroy much of the existing wildlife in the world's largest surface freshwater resource.
A group of eight Lake Superior islands, totaling more than 4,700 acres, will be protected under a recent $7 million bi-national purchase by the N