Explore the new interactive map highlighting proposed and planned wind farming areas across the USA and Canada, including the Great Lakes. Discover o ...

Which Great Lake do you always forget? How to remember them: Think of the acronym H.O.M.E.S.: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior.

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.

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 generate ($)6 trillion to America’s GDP and support over 51 million jobs, yet we have barely scratched the surface of understanding the depths of the lakes,” said McClain, a ...

Long before the Great Lakes came to define the heart of North America, a much larger lake once ruled the land. Lake Agassiz, a prehistoric inland sea, spread across the continent with a reach that ...

A couple sits on a beach near Lake Erie, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Oregon, Ohio. An effort to map the bottom of the Great Lakes is gaining momentum amid promises that it will help ...

T he Great Lakes formed where they did 20,000 years ago thanks to a hotspot that sat under the supercontinent Pangaea 300 ...

The organization has been pushing since 2018 to create high-resolution maps of all five Great Lakes bottoms, but that's a daunting task. The lakes cover 94,250 square miles — an area larger than ...

Ice cover in North America’s Great Lakes has hit its lowest level for 50 years after an unusually warm start to winter, continuing a decline that is being closely monitored for its links to ...

The Great Lakes have been known to generate waves of more than 25 feet. They can sink lake freighters over 500 feet long when this happens. Lake Erie is booby-trapped with reefs, numerous sand ...