Most people don't know that an ancient hidden hotspot created the Great Lakes and that it existed centuries before North ...

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

Scientists with the International Joint Commission want to see a coordinated effort to monitor microplastic pollution in the lakes.

A board of scientists has proposed a system to monitor microplastics in the Great Lakes. Currently, there’s no coordinated ...

Twelve fired employees of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and two with the U.S. Geological Survey helped control the invasive sea lamprey for the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, a commission ...

"Sinkholes are most common in what geologists call, 'karst terrain'," the US Geological Survey explains. "These are regions ...

Although the Western Reserve was found in Lake Superior, estimates suggest there are more than 1,700 ships resting just in Lake Michigan.