Bacteria, microplastics and trash from landfills are all serious concerns when looking at the health of Lake Champlain, especially after the flooding last year and this summer. With the high water ...

The Lake Champlain Sea Grant’s research ship is offering educational trips on the New York side of the lake for the first time. WAMC’s North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley boarded the first citizen ...

It took more than four decades, but the lake trout population in Lake Champlain is now self-sustaining, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. That means DEC, along ...

PLATTSBURGH — The Lake Champlain Sea Grant at SUNY Plattsburgh is offering two educational boat trips from 10 a.m. to noon and 1-3 p.m. July 9 on the research vessel Marcelle Melosira. Lake Champlain ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Oct. 20, 2025 – A research team from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) has been recommended for a two-year grant from the Lake Champlain Sea Grant to ...

A new coalition is hitting the beaches and watersheds – not to relax, but to reduce the presence of marine debris. The Lake Champlain Basin Marine Debris Coalition is made up of six organizations ...

This “Winter Salt Week” held Jan. 26-30 highlighted all the road salt we use, and how to reduce it. Lake Champlain Sea Grant ...

Although it’s not as exciting as spying the Lake Champlain monster, the discovery of bones from a prehistoric seal in the bed of a former inland sea in the Lake Champlain Valley should intrigue anyone ...

The water chestnut, an aquatic invasive species, was found last summer in Dead Creek, also known as Scomotion Creek, on the north end of Plattsburgh. Water chestnut is best controlled by physically ...

In 1998, Lake Champlain was briefly designated as a Great Lake due to an amendment by Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, which allowed Vermont and New York to access conservation funds typically reserved for ...