In his second term, President Donald Trump has not taken many actions that draw near-universal praise from across the political spectrum. But there is at least one of these political anomalies, and it ...

Last week, Illinois officials took possession of a 50-acre stretch of riverbed in Chicago’s shipping channel in a last-ditch effort to prevent an ecological disaster from reaching Lake Michigan. It is ...

There is one thing that unites President Donald Trump, his Democratic opponents, and the Canadians he's threatening to annex: a ferociously hungry carp.

Conservationists and wildlife officials have been policing the porous border between the Mississippi watershed and the Great Lakes for years. Their main concern: preventing Asian carp, an invasive ...

A Boston, Mass.-based scientist won $200,000 in Gov. Rick Snyder’s “Carp Tank” competition to come up with new ways to thwart the Great Lakes’ likely imminent Asian carp invasion. Carp Tank (like ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mike Shriberg, University of Michigan (THE CONVERSATION) In his second term, President ...