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

The Great Lakes are home to an astounding 6,000 shipwrecks ... The Fitzgerald was in the worst possible location for the worst of the storm. Wind and waves from the west hit the freighter ...

Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume, known as the "Galapagos of Russia." However, the unusual body ...

The Great Lakes reached their highest ice coverage in three years on Feb. 22, hitting 52.23%. Warming temperatures have caused that percentage to shrink to nearly zero. With continuing above ...

Note This story has been amended to better reflect the results of the study. The Great Lakes are some of North America’s most beautiful and prized bodies of water, but plastic pollution is ...