While Antarctica might get all the buzz as an expedition cruise destination, the Great Lakes is an underrated gem—and ...

“We are worried that maybe behind all this is the idea that a country one day will be able to take water out of the Great Lakes and manage water not as an ecosystem that needs to be preserved in ...

The compact, among other things, seeks to prohibit any large-scale diversion of water outside the Great Lakes basin. A similar, bi-national agreement also involves the Canadian provinces on the ...

Lake Erie comes in at the shallowest of the Great Lakes and the smallest by volume, with 115.2 cubic miles of water. Lake ...

“We are worried that maybe behind all this is the idea that a country one day will be able to take water out of the Great Lakes and manage water not as an ecosystem that needs to be preserved in ...

A Rwandan senate delegation has expressed concern over the heavy influence Belgium holds in shaping European perspectives on Africa’s Great Lakes regional affairs, particularly among Nordic ...

If it were its own country, the Great Lakes region would have a GDP of $6 trillion, making it the third biggest economy in the world. Clean water is at the center of the region’s economic success.

This is a role the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (CEPGL) – formed in 1976 by DRC, Rwanda and Burundi – could have played. Although CEPGL still exists, it is dormant. The lack of a ...

In March, Cleveland’s water commissioner wrote a letter calling for continued support for the Great Lakes lab and other NOAA-funded operations in the region, saying that access to real-time ...