“Microplastics are reported to be present in sources of drinking water and in fish collected from the Great Lakes and their ...

By Gary Wilson In 2024 when Donald Trump as a presidential candidate proposed piping water from British Columbia, Canada to California, his statement was largely dismissed as campaign rhetoric. Once ...

With the warm weather these past few days the ice on the Great Lakes is quickly receding. Here's a look at how the ice cover ...

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

The Canadian Coast Guard's seasonal search and rescue stations across the Great Lakes will open on the following dates ...

Lake Ontario has the lowest ratio of surface area exposed to the cold air vs. its volume, so that in any given winter it typically develops less ice cover percentage-wise than any other Great Lake ...

Marie, Michigan, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Disaster on the Great Lakes isn’t limited to Whitefish Bay. One of the worst wrecks in all the Great Lakes happened in Lake Michigan in 1860.

The Great Lakes reached their highest ice coverage ... Lake Michigan: 279 feet in average depth, reaching 925 feet at maximum. Lake Ontario: 283 feet in average depth, maximum depth at 802 feet.