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 ...

With a fifth of the world’s freshwater and covering an area of around 95,000 square miles, North America’s five Great Lakes are like inland seas, with major cities on their fringes ...

The Great Lakes make up the largest freshwater system in the world. Can you name the national parks found near and along their shores? They preserve natural phenomena and cultural history distinctive ...