Recent research indicates that blue lakes are no longer the most common in America, as lakes turn murkier for a variety of reasons.

Ducks Unlimited is expanding their Living Lakes Initiative, improving water quality, and restoring the “duck factories” of the prairie pothole habitat.

New, smarter buoys were deployed on Lake Michigan this summer, so EM spoke to an engineer who helped design them and a scientist using their data.

The Jefferson Project has begun a pilot program in Skaneateles Lake to determine what caused a large harmful algal bloom in 2017, the lake’s first.