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The Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control office is usually bustling, with phones ringing, people walking in and out, and animals making noise.

Days before Duluth native Mary Stauffer and her family were scheduled to leave for the Philippines on a four-year Baptist missionary trip, she took her 8-year-old daughter, Beth, to get a haircut in suburban St. Paul. Upon leaving the salon, the mother and daughter were confronted by a man with a gun and an evil […]

Rising temperatures and pollution have led to an explosive growth of harmful algal blooms, contaminating our drinking water and harming human health.

The Great Lakes have endured a lot the past century, from supersized algae blobs to invasive mussels and bloodsucking sea lamprey that nearly wiped out fish populations. Now, another danger: They — and other big lakes around the world — might be getting more ac...

The chemical transformation of the Great Lakes could make them less hospitable to animals, causing disruptions in the food chain and killing off marine animals.

U.S. scientists have placed sensors on a buoy in Lake Huron to follow water chemistry trends. They hope eventually to do likewise in the other Great Lakes.

The Great Lakes have endured a lot the past century, from supersized algae blobs to invasive mussels and bloodsucking sea lamprey that nearly wiped out fish populations.

Scientists say the atmospheric carbon overload responsible for global warming might also be making large lakes more acidic

The Great Lakes have endured a lot the past century, from supersized algae blobs to invasive mussels and bloodsucking sea lamprey that nearly wiped out fish populations.

Scientists are building a sensor network to spot Lake Huron water chemistry trends. It's a first step toward a hoped-for system that would track carbon dioxide and pH in all five Great Lakes over multiple years.