There are few other topics gathering more attention than ballast water exchange, as the chorus of environmental damage from the scientific community and howls of reform from the legislative community ...

Through a lot of expensive and dangerous trial-and-error over multiple centuries — sometimes resulting in shipwrecks you still can explore today — humans have ...

Researchers are investigating a radical new design for cargo ships that would eliminate ballast tanks, the water-filled compartments that enable non-native creatures to sneak into the Great Lakes from ...

Freighters carrying water for ballast have introduced over 150 nonnative creatures into the Great Lakes, including the zebra and quagga mussels. These species often cause havoc to other marine life ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- The Obama administration will reconsider a federal permit for oceangoing ships that critics say fails to prevent invasive species from entering the Great Lakes, the new chief ...

Ships have always required ballast to operate successfully and safely. For millennia, ships carried solid ballast in the form of rocks, sand, roof tiles, and many other heavy materials. From the 1880s ...