The Great Lakes, which nearly 40 million people in the United States and Canada depend on for drinking water, have already taken a beating from climate change. Water levels dropped this fall to ...

Public Interest On first mission to Great Lakes, NOAA ship will sonar map Lake Erie Updated: Feb. 24, 2022, 12:03 p.m. | Published: Feb. 24, 2022, 11:56 a.m. 23 1/23 NOAA to map Great Lakes bottom ...

Now, 40 years later, Boehme wants to launch another treasure hunt. As executive director of the Great Lakes Observing System, she's leading a campaign to map every meter of the lakes' bottom.

A haze of unhealthful air hung over the Great Lakes region in a reminder of the fires that are still raging in Canada and pushing smoke toward the U.S.

The lake, which Michigan shares with Ontario, Canada, has 3,800 miles of shoreline and the world's largest freshwater island, Manitoulin Island, the National Museum of the Great Lakes notes.

At the Great Lakes Day summit, politicians and officials of all stripes gather in Washington, D.C., to demonstrate their commitment to the largest freshwater ecosystem on the planet.

For over a century, the United States and Canada have worked in tandem to manage four of the five Great Lakes that straddle both countries: Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. That cooperative ...

Rock The Lake On first mission to Great Lakes, NOAA ship will sonar map Lake Erie Published: Mar. 23, 2022, 3:54 p.m. 23 1/23 NOAA to map Great Lakes bottom in 2022 ...