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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Lake effect snow is dependent on the Great Lakes water temperature and how much of the lake is frozen. But what does the current ice concentration look like and ...

Stunning satellite imagery reveals the aftermath of a deep freeze in Chicago, showcasing ice formations on Lake Michigan and ...

Since 1973, ice coverage has fallen by 77% on Lake Michigan and 71% on the Great Lakes as a whole. That has a far-reaching ...