Great Lakes piping plovers are small, federally endangered migratory shorebirds that nest and feed along the sand and gravel ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has halted a key project meant to defend the Great Lakes from invasive carp, citing federal funding ...

To that end, the nonprofit Great Lakes Observing System, or GLOS, is asking ice fishing anglers and others who go out on the ...

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

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker humorously proclaimed the renaming of Lake Michigan to "Lake Illinois" and the annexation of ...

After a much colder start to Winter this year, Great Lakes ice cover has grown quickly. According to data from the National ...

Above: Satellite view of the Great Lakes on a recent clear day (December 22, 2019), showing less than 2% overall ice cover, about normal for this point in the winter, mainly in Green Bay and ...

Scientists are urging the US and Canadian governments to take swift action after discovering high levels of microplastic ...

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

Since the December 2024 meeting between Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Angola was cancelled due to ...

A new documentary released to streaming services on Jan. 31, 'THE FISH THIEF: A Great Lakes Mystery' tells the story of the ...

When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...