The five famous Great Lakes in North America—Superior ... Despite being one of the world's clearest and oldest freshwater lakes, Lake Baikal's water isn't typically safe to drink without ...

When towns along the Great Lakes in the United States get buried in drifts of blowing snow, weather experts start talking about the “lake effect”. Lake-effect snow often occurs in relatively ...

Lakes with impressive depths or unique ... that create the illusion of being never-ending. The deepest lake on Earth, Lake ...

The average annual ice cover over the Great Lakes region responds very closely to seasonal changes in annual temperature. However, each lake exhibits its own individual response and timescale ...

Lake Superior boasts all the superlatives: Of the five Great Lakes, it is the largest, deepest and the coldest. Its depth is a little less than the height of Chicago's Willis Tower, by about a ...

Great Lakes data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers includes the following future predictions for the water levels for each lake: In February the water levels in Lake Erie reached a high of 571 ...

A native Great Lakes whitefish thought extinct for nearly 40 years has been rediscovered by scientists – in the wrong Great Lake. The Shortnose Cisco was once abundant on the Great Lakes ...

April marked the start of the Great Lakes' seasonal rise as ice melted. "In the spring, the ice and snow melts and rainfall become abundant. Water levels will rise through the summer. Lake levels ...