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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nora Beer of the University of Vermont Agroecology Institute. aboard the UVM research vessel Marcelle Melosira, deploys a Secchi disk to measure the transparency of silt-laden water near the mouth of ...

Early indicators have led local scientists to conclude that recent flooding is not impacting Lake Champlain's health as much as last year's storms, although there are still concerns for the ...

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 ...

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) - The Lake Champlain Sea Grant targets the smallest of plastics to make a big impact. Aude Lochet is the Lake Champlain Sea Grant Institute’s outreach specialist. Lochet and ...

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 ...

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 ...