Water levels of the upper Great Lakes are expected to drop to near or significantly below their historical summer averages ...

U.S. Senators from Michigan Elissa Slotkin and Gary Peters are pushing new legislation Tuesday that would reauthorize the ...

The Great Lakes region is a major recipient of federal funding to protect and clean up the basin as well as protect its rich history.

To that end, the nonprofit Great Lakes Observing System, or GLOS, is asking ice fishing anglers and others who go out on the ice to gather and submit measurements of thickness, as well as observations ...

This is a bit of a departure from some of GLOS's past work — a website called Seagull that aggregates sensor-based, real-time ...

Canada and the U.S. are being asked by the science advisory board for the International Joint Commission to designate ...

The Great Lakes are an amazing natural resource that ... one-third of the population of Canada live within their drainage basin. They hold about 6 quadrillion gallons of water, or enough to ...

Illinois Department of Natural Resources Director Natalie Phelps Finnie on Monday wrote in a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of ...

Every year, more than 22 million pounds of plastic pollution enter the Great Lakes, according to a study by the Rochester Institute of Technology. While visible plastic waste is ...

The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative recently welcomed Michigan City Mayor Angie Nelson Deuitch and the city, ...

“In some parts of the Great Lakes basin, we believe the levels in water can pose a risk to some of the aquatic life,” said Karen Kidd, an author of the report and a professor at McMaster Universit ...