Satellite imagery shows that only a small area of Lake Champlain near Juniper Island remains open, bringing the lake close to full ice closure. It is a sight that has become increasingly rare in ...

The trend is unambiguous: Lake Champlain is freezing over less often than it did historically. But a run of consistently cold weather this winter set up the region’s largest lake for its first full ...

On a recent morning in May, a crew of scientists aboard a research vessel in the middle of Lake Champlain untangled a big commercial fishing net, preparing to drop it into the dark depths of the lake.

Lake trout populations in Lake Champlain are now self-sustaining, eliminating the need for stocking. This success follows a decades-long program to control sea lamprey, a parasitic fish harming lake ...

The Lake Champlain Basin Program has released its State of the Lake and Ecosystem Indicators report, which provides an analysis of the health of the lake and trends for its water quality and ecosystem ...

The Patrick Leahy-Lake Champlain Basin Program has issued its 2024 State of the Lake and Ecosystems Indicators report. Produced every three years, it documents efforts to manage the lake, its ...

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 ...