Willy Stern of Lake Nebagamon points at one of dozens of antique maps that line the walls, halls and stairway of his cabin on ...

Only a fraction of the Great Lakes' bottom has been mapped, and those low-resolution charts were completed decades ago, according to the Great Lakes Observing System. The organization has been pushing ...

We know less about the bottom of the Great Lakes than we do about the surface of Mars, according to Jennifer Boehme. The oceanographer is executive director of the Great Lakes Observing System, an Ann ...

The Great Lakes area a series of five interconnected freshwater lakes that span Canada and the United States. And two of ...

Forecast maps shared with Newsweek by AccuWeather highlight which areas around the Great Lakes can expect the heaviest ...

Amir Daftari is a Newsweek reporter based in London, specializing in global affairs with a focus on the Middle East. He joined Newsweek in 2024 from the United Nations and has previously worked at CNN ...

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. — If poured out like a pitcher of lemonade, the water held by the Great Lakes could cover the land mass of both North and South America with more than a foot of water. In fact, Lake ...

Heading into the end of November, portions of the Great Lakes region were in a snowfall deficit measured in feet. A lack of ...

Within the watershed of the largest surface freshwater system on the planet, there are 23 nuclear power plants, four sites for mining uranium, six for uranium processing and 12 places nuclear waste is ...

MADISON, Wis. — Jennifer Boehme grew up scouting beaches around her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for whatever she could find. Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean gave up.