It's a fish story with a big, unexpected plot twist. A native Great Lakes whitefish thought extinct for nearly 40 years has been rediscovered by scientists – in the wrong Great Lake. The ...

The Ice Age and the Transformation of the Great Lakes Roughly 20,000 years ago, the landscape of North America was unrecognizable compared to today. Colossal glaciers, sometimes a mile thick ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers stands by its prediction that the water levels in the Great Lakes will continue to rise ...

Conservation officials confirmed this year is a record-breaking nesting season for the federally endangered shorebird.

For Lynn, the catastrophe illustrated the dangers of the Great Lakes, which are home to some 6,000 shipwrecks in which 30,000 people have died. “Every shipwreck has its own story, but some are ...

Great Lakes basins may have formed millions of years ago from activity deep in the Earth — long ... Since the last major ice age started 2.7 million years ago and until it ended about 12,000 ...

This image provided by Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society shows a broken mast from The Western Reserve, a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1940 off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Few fish are as synonymous with Michigan as whitefish. Pushed to the edge by invasive species, their struggle is the tip of a ...

Great Lakes fish. And when we say "wild," we mean ocean-run fish. So, ... They were coded into my DNA by the age of five. That’s laughable to so many fishermen in this country, ...

The Great Lakes Theater veteran said her policy when tackling unknown material is to take an exciting journey of discovery that begins with going dark in a way. ... Molly, he meets at a young age.

In fact, the Great Lakes make for a world-class shipwreck museum, albeit one that can be reached only by competent SCUBA divers or ROVs like Rhody, depending on the wreck’s depth.