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 ...

The Great Lakes and connecting channels comprise the largest surface freshwater system on Earth. Their 6 quadrillion (6,000,000,000,000,000) gallons of water, if spread evenly across the 48 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

according to the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS). The organization has been pushing since 2018 to secure funding to map the entire lakebed in high-resolution. Advocates argue the effort ...

The interactive map, below, shows all of the nuclear power operations within the Great Lakes watershed. Rollover/click the icons to identify the operation. Click the legend link and check/uncheck ...

were actually moving north and establishing in lakes that were really too cold for them in the past, but were warming up. But the process of colonizing the Great Lakes was somewhat different.