Agricultural runoff, less wintertime ice cover and strong storms that deposit nutrients into the lake are other possible ...

Lake Victoria is the largest of Africa’s Great Lakes, the second largest in the world after Lake Superior. George Bullerjahn, ...

Political tensions, especially over tariffs, are threatening the future of the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth.

New York State Rep. Burke introduced the Great Lakes and State Waters Bill of Rights, Bill AO5156A, which would recognize ...

Rising temperatures and changing environmental conditions in the Great Lakes are contributing to harmful algal blooms, and ...

For over a century, the United States and Canada have worked in tandem to manage four of the five Great Lakes that straddle ...

Among the agencies being hit by federal funding cuts, changes in administration priorities and employee buyouts is the ...

While commonly associated with the summer, algal blooms can also persist into the fall. As of late October 2024, blooms were still present along the southern shores of Lake Erie. In the warm ...

Winter brought a colder and icier season to the Great Lakes, especially Lake Erie, which saw a near-complete ice cover in ...

As of March 16, average ice cover across the lakes was roughly 13.5%. Lake Superior was at 9.2%, and Lake Michigan was at 10.7%.

Great Lakes ... specializes in Great Lakes policy. “You can’t manage things like invasive species from only one country and not the other. You can’t manage harmful algal blooms from one ...