Ballast Water

This week on the Up North Lowdown: How a northern Michigan woman's effort to get people writing letters helped hundreds of people find pen pals ... and human connection.

Scientists have been trying to figure out a good way to treat ballast water from lakers, which are ships that travel only within the Great Lakes. But new research shows things might be a little trickier than scientists thought.

The invasive aquatic plant called European frogbit was found in Oceana and Ottawa counties this summer. Frogbit is a small green plant that looks like a…

This week, the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New York ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to write new rules for the ballast water in...

There are more than 180 species in the Great Lakes that are not supposed to be here. Euan Reavie is a researcher with the University of Minnesota...