Beneath the hype, the region faces a host of both potential and very real climate-related problems. Many of these relate to ...

Photographer David Zurick’s 'Third Coast' celebrates the Great Lakes’ 4,500-mile shoreline, which covers more distance than ...

Mariners Trail, Point Beach State Forest, the Wisconsin Ice Age Trail and Woodland Dunes Nature Center make our list of great ...

Scientists found new and missing species on Charity Island, showing how wildlife changes over a century on this remote Lake ...

Officials see below-average water levels compared to 2024 for the Great Lakes. Here are the updated levels for June.

Officials see below-average water levels compared to 2024 for the Great Lakes. Here are the updated levels for June.

Each spring, NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) conducts an analysis of how Great Lakes ice conditions progressed throughout the previous winter.

Ice collects along the shore of Lake Michigan as temperatures were in the single-digits for most of the day on Feb. 17 in Chicago. As it stands, almost all monitoring of the Great Lakes is done ...

The U.S. Coast Guard Detroit Sector says icebreaking season on the lower Great Lakes is officially over. “Operation Coal Shovel began on January 6 and officially concluded on April 14 due to ...

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