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Welcome Bots Lake Tahoe's got a high-tech new resident — and this one's got a pretty important job to do. In a press release, the Keep Tahoe Blue nonprofit introduced its brand new PixieDrone, an aquatic robot that patrols the lake's famously-blue waters and extracts trash and invasive plants. Created by the French startup Searial […]

The new machine that sifts through sand is called a BeBot and the Pixie Drone will help clean up the Lake Erie and waterways picking up plastic.

Watch MLive and the Council of the Great Lakes Region's webinar on climate havens and how to prepare for climate migration.

An upcoming free webinar will focus on how the Great Lakes region is a climate haven.

There are millions of pounds of trash lining the Great Lakes and it’s all caused by humans. So how do we fix it? Well, Meijer is trying something distinctly not human.

Thanks to a $1,000,000 donation from Meijer two new drones are helping clean up the Lake Michigan shoreline.

The BeBot and Pixie Drone, funded by Meijer, can collect plastic and litter from area beaches and lakes..