Visitors to the Great Lakes quickly come to appreciate them. They need only to get up close and take some time to go for a boat ride, hike on their shorelines, climb their sandy dunes, enjoy the ...

The Great Lakes formed where they did 20,000 years ago thanks to a hotspot that sat under the supercontinent Pangaea 300 million years ago, before North America even existed. New research finds ...

North America is home to the Great Lakes—Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior—spanning the borders of several U.S. states and Canada. These vast freshwater bodies are renowned for ...

WHY IT RATES: Specifically designed to sail North America's Great Lakes region, the new Viking Octanis expedition ... with the aid of 3D printed maps, digital screens, and a state-of-the-art spatial ...

The oceanographer is executive director of the Great Lakes Observing System, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based nonprofit leading a concerted effort to fully map the ... 6 trillion to America’s ...

An effort to map the bottom ... and discovery of the Great Lakes into our own hands," McClain said during a March House subcommittee hearing. The shoreline along the North Shore of Lake Superior ...

Explore North America's five Great Lakes and the storied St. Lawrence River with American Queen Voyages. The cruise line offers four distinct itineraries, providing guests the opportunity to explore ...

Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ice cover in North America’s Great Lakes has hit its lowest level for 50 years after an unusually warm start ...

Lake Nipigon covers nearly 1,900 square miles, but on a map it looks ... and 84 percent of North America’s. Almost 40 million Americans and Canadians live in the Great Lakes watershed.

As executive director of the Great Lakes Observing System, she's leading a campaign to map every meter of the lakes' bottom. The effort, the marine scientist says, will pinpoint hundreds of ...