Researchers explore climate and hydrologic change across the Great Lakes region in North America and other transboundary ...

Storms knocked power for thousands around Great Lakes region, with more tornado risk coming. Storms are expected in the Ohio, Tennessee and Mid-Mississippi valleys, where there are threats of ...

Candy wrappers. Cigarette butts. Chip bags. The litter you see on the side of the street doesn’t just present a public nuisance where it’s dropped. It’s one of the more serious emerging ...

In 2002, the Great Lakes basin had just 11.9% ice coverage, NOAA said. In 2012, Lake Superior had 8.5% coverage. In 2002, Lake Michigan had 12.4% coverage.

The Great Lakes remain well below comfortable — or even safe — swimming temperatures, according to water temperature monitoring. Swimming is most comfortable in lake waters at about 70 degrees ...

The process forming the Great Lakes began millions of years ago but wasn't completed until the last ice age, 20,000 years ago. The northern shore of Lake Superior, Ontario, Canada.

As of March 16, average ice cover across the lakes was roughly 13.5%. Lake Superior was at 9.2%, and Lake Michigan was at 10.7%.

Federal Great Lakes science, data collection and monitoring has been scaled back amid firings and budget cuts since President Donald Trump returned to office in January. That's just the start.

The massive freighters that ply the Great Lakes are back at work following the early reopening of the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 season, and they're doing it all under the watchful eyes of webcams ...

A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed where they did. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Commercial fishing on the Great Lakes was built on lake whitefish, but for the past two decades, that species has been on the decline. It's now on the brink of collapse in parts of two of the lakes.