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Here’s how to see auroras—from the Great Lakes. Don’t worry about a trek to Iceland. You can see the northern lights in the upper Midwest, too. By Stephanie Vermillion. August 4, 2020 ...
The Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, said 'No one knows what new catastrophes and suffering it ...
The National Weather Service has predicted severe thunderstorm risk for the Midwest and lower Great Lakes on Wednesday, June 18.It added that there are chances of the thunderstorm moving towards ...
Illinois is already a top destination for data centers, and more are coming. One small Chicago suburb alone has approved one large complex and has proposals for two more. Once they’re online, data ...
GREAT LAKES DREDGE AND DOCK CO. was established when the use of larger ships on the Great Lakes created a need for deeper channels and sturdier docks. Founded in 1890 by William A. Lydon, the company ...
For two weeks each year, the St. Clair River hosts thousands of spawning lake sturgeon. Hundreds of six-foot females plump with eggs and thousands of 4 to 5-foot-long males gather at the base of Lake ...
The highly vulnerable Great Lakes region may unfortunately follow the same path to a war economy observed in fragile and conflict-afflicted states like the Central African Republic, Sudan, South Sudan ...
Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology ...
Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology ...
Long before the Great Lakes came to define the heart of North America, a much larger lake once ruled the land. Lake Agassiz, a prehistoric inland sea, spread across the continent with a reach that ...