Farmers in the region are facing decisions about how to best keep land in production as land values rise, climate change ...

Almost a century ago, the first study was conducted to set aside the islands as a national park. Decades later, President ...

Will Pres. Donald Trump really rename Lake Ontario to Lake America? That’s the question, after the U.S. President took to ...

More than 200,000 people canoe around North America each year. Learn more about the legendary northern canoeist and ...

For over a decade, Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 has been the center of a political and environmental battle in Michigan. The legal conflict included state officials, federal agencies, tribal nations, ...

In rural Ohio, data center developments are facing pushback from local residents. @ideastream’s Zaria Johnson breaks down what’s happening. Illinois is the first Great Lakes state to classify plastic ...

Some lake sturgeon swimming in the Great Lakes today may have been alive for centuries, according to new research that suggests scientists have significantly underestimated the fish’s lifespan.

For more than a century, a dam divided the upstream Sandusky River from Lake Erie. People got power, but fish were prevented from reaching native spawning grounds. Then, four years ago, the dam came ...

The Great Lakes’ history of fishing can be separated into three general periods beginning with Indigenous nations’ utilization of the lakes for their subsistence. That was followed by the ...

Shortly after Chelsea Rochman started her faculty job at the University of Toronto, she began working with the Government of Canada to sample microplastics in fish from Lake Ontario. What she found, ...

Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes That Dot Our Planet is a new book by Geo Rutherford. Below is an adapted excerpt from her New York Times best seller, all about Lake Superior. Follow Geo ...