Like St. Joseph City Commissioners, the Berrien County Board of Commissioners is thinking about how to better protect the ...

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

Gary Swick has been trying to change minds by shifting how community members see the Fox River. Instead of seeing it as just ...

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 impact on coast erosion, aquatic ecosystems and Great Lakes shipping.

The oxbow’s natural shoreline along the Rouge River, once eliminated for flood control, has been restored and transformed ...

Ice seems temporary. It melts in a glass. It disappears at a sunbeam’s touch. It ebbs with the first relief of spring. But ...

Great Lakes scientists explain that Lake Michigan water levels will be more ... that pound the shoreline’s built environment, causing erosion and destruction. That includes both residential ...

For example, diminished ice cover on Lake Michigan has led to more severe shoreline erosion, threatening homes and public infrastructure. Environmental shifts also strain infrastructure.

The sinkholes in Lake Michigan, ranging from 300 to 600 feet across, formed as water dissolved limestone bedrock, causing surface collapse. Groundwater erosion creates caverns beneath the lake ...

In 1973, Chicago passed a lakefront ordinance that now regulates construction along the shore, protects Lake Michigan’s natural ... against erosion. Despite the city’s efforts to protect ...