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.

In the case of the Great Lakes in the 1940s and 50s, this same narrative unfolded. The lake trout population was nearly wiped out, and all fingers pointed at commercial fishermen. The problem?

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

Zebra and quagga mussels, originally found in Eastern Europe and Russia, arrived in the Great Lakes in the late 80s via ballast discharge from transoceanic ships. The Rochester embayment was ...

A January 2025 cold wave plunged Chicago into subzero temperatures, initially without snow. By late January, snowfall ...