Sweeping layoffs of federal employees have struck the program responsible for controlling the invasive sea lamprey that ...

The Great Lakes were formed by melting glaciers 20,000 years ago — that’s how most people know the formation of these vast ...

The Great Lakes saw more than 50% ice coverage in February. As temperatures warm up, that percentage is falling quickly. Here ...

This study out of the University of Houston points to a new theory that as North America began to split away, the Great Lakes ...

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 ...

The shipwreck, broken in two, was discovered by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society using sonar technology. A historic all-steel ship that broke records as it cruised the Great Lakes but ...

The oldest lake in the world dates back about 25 million years and is also the world's deepest and most biologically diverse ...

and ensuring clean drinking water for some 40 million people around the Great Lakes, the earth’s largest fresh surface water system. The Great Lakes provide more than 1.5 million jobs ...

the earth’s largest freshwater ecosystem. Among hundreds of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) employees terminated this month were 12 members of the Great Lakes sea lamprey control program ...

The Great Lakes reached their highest ice coverage in three years on February 22, hitting 52.23%. However, a warming trend caused the ice coverage to plummet to 28.95% within a few days.