Did you know the Great Lakes experience a rare winter phenomenon called ice volcanoes? These icy eruptions form when waves crash into frozen shorelines, creating cone-shaped structures that look like ...

Altogether, the Great Lakes are seeing healthier ice coverage this year. Here's what to know about their current conditions.

Abdullatif Ahmed recalls his journey from Yemen to working on the icy waters of the Great Lakes, where Yemeni sailors shaped the region’s maritime history.

I’m really looking forward to it. Absolutely! It’s been 11 years since I’ve been to the Detroit area,” said Jones, of San Diego, best known for 1980’s “Flash Gordon” and the short-lived 1987-88 ...

The “piece de resistance” was the display showing over 100 years of F.W. Wakefield’s “Tobermory II,” “Champion” and now “Gerald D. Neville.” ...

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

According to the almanac, “dry conditions are expected in the following regions: upper New England, southern Florida, Texas–Oklahoma and the Heartland, the western Ohio Valley and Lower Great Lakes, ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — 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 how does this ...

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The next few weeks look quite a bit milder than last week, but still near normal temperatures. The Great Lakes ice cover will continue to grow, but probably at a much slower pace. It will take a ...

When ice piles up along Great Lakes shorelines ... South Haven Area Emergency Services posted photos of shelf ice formed along the Lake Michigan shore and issued a warning.

The late Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot memorialized the Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald in song after the ship sank in November 1975 in Lake Superior. But the ship certainly isn't the ...