TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - After decades of delay, government officials are beginning to crack down on cargo ships that allow foreign invasive species to hitchhike to U.S. waters, where they have ...

LANSING (WWJ/AP) - Despite opposition from environmentalists, the U.S. House is moving ahead with legislation proposing a national standard for cleansing ballast water from foreign ships. Many ships ...

Destructive invasive species hitch a ride into the Chesapeake Bay in the ballast water of large cargo ships, prompting scientists to seek ways to treat the water before it?s released from the ship.

Ballast water of ships may be the source of the largest volume of foreign organisms released on a daily basis into the marine ecosystems. The ballast water has been a primary method of alien species ...

S T.  C L A I R,   M i c h.,   Aug. 14 -- Capt. Pat Nelson gazes about the cavernous, mud-slicked interior of the ballast tank deep in thebowels of the 1,000-foot cargo ship, Oglebay ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.—The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Thursday began weighing whether to uphold the state’s ship ballast water regulations that are designed to keep invasive species out of Lake Superior.

Canada’s Fednav Ltd. fleet of saltwater ships that visit Great Lakes ports is installing ballast-water treatment systems in 12 of its new ships now under construction. The announcement, made Wednesday ...

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 ...