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Freighter Freed From Ice On Lake Erie, Heads To Canada

Joint U.S. and Canadian Coast Guard effort rescues Manitoulin freighter trapped in Lake Erie ice, ensuring crew safety and safe passage to Sarnia, Ontario.

Top News · Jan 27, 2025

Frozen freighter on the move after getting stuck in Lake Erie ice for days

The ship wasn’t damaged, and its crew is safe, officials said

The Independent UK · Jan 26, 2025

Freighter remains stuck in Lake Erie ice as crews rush to free vessel with 17 aboard

There are 17 people stuck on the vessel

The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2025

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Freighter remains stuck in the ice on a frozen Lake Erie

The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards are continuing efforts to break up ice and free a freighter that has been trapped in a frozen Lake Erie for days, officials said

The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2025

A Canadian freighter gets trapped in ice on Lake Erie

A Canadian freighter with 17 people on board got stuck in ice on Lake Erie while departing Buffalo

The Independent UK · Jan 23, 2025

Warmer winters are fuelling a growth in algal blooms across the Great Lakes

While commonly associated with the summer, algal blooms can also persist into the fall. As of late October 2024, blooms were still present along the southern shores of Lake Erie.

The Conversation · Dec 2, 2024

'A harbinger of what's to come:' NASA satellites show massive drop in global freshwater levels

NASA satellites discovered that Earth's surface has lost enough water to empty Lake Erie two and a half times since 2015. And the problem could be here to stay.

LiveScience · Nov 21, 2024

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Spooky fireball blazes across Lake Erie a week before Halloween (video)

A fireball lit up the skies over Lake Erie on Monday (Oct. 21) evening, eliciting hundreds of witness reports to the American Meteor Society.

Space · Oct 23, 2024

Watch huge fireball blaze over Lake Erie in stunning videos

A fiery meteor shot across the sky above the Great Lakes on Monday (Oct. 21) just after sunset, stunning witnesses from Michigan to New York, Kentucky and North Carolina.

LiveScience · Oct 23, 2024

Researchers in a lab near Lake Erie study how toxic algae can damage health

In a lab not far from the shores of Lake Erie, researchers are trying to learn more about the ways toxic algae can damage health

The Independent UK · Oct 22, 2024

On Lake Erie, getting rid of problem algae starts with giving it less food

Western Lake Erie is an ideal environment for the bacteria that make up algae

The Independent UK · Oct 22, 2024

Rare catch in Lake Erie called a ‘unicorn,’ and a fish of a lifetime

A teen fishing in a tournament thought he had hooked a big steelhead, but once it was boated, he quickly realized its true identity.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Aug 10, 2024

Boat involved in notorious walleye cheating scandal could be yours

Two men surrendered the $100,000 boat after they were found to have stuffed weights into their fish at a Lake Erie tournament. Now the vessel is up for auction.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Jul 11, 2024

5 boaters found clinging to a cooler in Lake Erie are rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter crew

The Coast Guard came to the rescue of five people who were clinging to a cooler in Lake Erie after their boat was swamped by a wave off the Ohio coast

The Independent UK · Jul 10, 2024

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Top News · Jun 13, 2024

Tragic Loss: 10-Year-Old Boy Swept Away In Lake Erie

Tragic incident at Lake Erie beach as 10-year-old Hunter Ebie swept away by rip current, highlighting the importance of water safety awareness.

The Conversation · Jun 11, 2024

Losing winter ice is changing the Great Lakes food web – here’s how light is shaping life underwater

Winters on the Great Lakes are harsh – so much so that the scientists who work there often focus on the summer months, when tiny microbes at the base of the food chain were thought to be most productive.

LiveScience · May 13, 2024

Aurora photos: Stunning northern lights glisten after biggest geomagnetic storm in 21 years

An immense geomagnetic storm caused auroras as far south as Florida for the first time in 21 years after the sun unleashed a wave of solar flares and at least seven coronal mass ejections at Earth.

Space · Dec 13, 2023

The best places in Canada to see the 2024 total solar eclipse

On April 8, 2024, all of Canada will see at least a partial solar eclipse, but parts of Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada will experience totality.

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Space · Nov 1, 2023

Where will the April 2024 total solar eclipse be visible from?

On April 8, 2024, North America will experience a partial solar eclipse, but from parts of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada it will be possible to experience totality.

The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2023

Strikers have shut down a vital Great Lakes shipping artery for days, and negotiations are looming

A strike has shut down all shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway, interrupting exports of grain and other goods from Canada and the United States via the Great Lakes to the rest the world

USA Today Sports Media Group · Aug 3, 2023

Another walleye fishing tourney marred by cheating scandal

Another fishing tournament is in the spotlight because of a cheating scandal – this time involving Lake Erie walleye that had allegedly been stuffed with smaller fish to make them appear heavier.

Daily Mirror · Jun 10, 2023

'My neighbour put up fence - now I have to squeeze through tiny gap to get inside door'

Sarfaraz Ali can no longer access his lakeside home on Lake Erie, Ontario after neighbour Oscar VanderHeide erected a large fence which now blocks the private road

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 5, 2023

Tell Congress to give EPA enough power to protect our nation’s wetlands

A bipartisan majority in Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972 because rivers were on fire, fish were dying, and Lake Erie was labeled “functionally dead.” The Supreme Court should not be allowed to rewrite the Act and ignore 45 years of practices to protect the environment and public…

The Independent UK · May 5, 2023

Judge sets a deadline to put Lake Erie on pollution diet

Ohio will have until the end of June to finish a plan to aimed at combating toxic algae blooms that have flourished in Lake Erie since the late 1990s

USA Today Sports Media Group · Mar 22, 2023

Lake Erie record smallmouth bass rare because of size, but also age

Biologists have determined that a 10.15-pound smallmouth bass reeled from Lake Erie last November was a 16-year-old female.

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