Explore the new interactive map highlighting proposed and planned wind farming areas across the USA and Canada, including the Great Lakes. Discover offshore wind farm development stages, developers, ...

Long before the Great Lakes came to define the heart of North America, a much larger lake once ruled the land. Lake Agassiz, ...

The vast majority of North America’s lakes endure the effects of wildfire smoke for more than 30 days annually, a new study has found. Harnessing maps and satellite data to visualize how smoke ...

To capture the lakes' geographic data, they used the North American lake maps database from the HydroLakes and United States Geologic Survey (USGS) NHDPlus database. They used these datasets to ...

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 ...

Lake Tahoe is the oldest lake in North America and the third oldest in the world, according to new research presented at the Geological Society of America’s annual meeting on Monday in Anaheim.

STATELINE, Nev. – The North American Lake Management Society (NALMS) chose to hold their annual conference in the Tahoe area for the first time since 1999. The society, which hosts citizens ...

We are just below Lake Michigan, and the area of the map ... Malcolm Lewis, expert on maps and North American native cultures, explains: "It was almost certainly used in the process of negotiating ...