The Great Lakes' ice coverage was lagging behind average for much of the winter. Now, coverage is above average for some ...

The Great Lakes region contains nearly 85 percent of North America's surface freshwater ... an estimated 4 billion tons of copper-nickel ores that may be worth more than $1 trillion. [Click here or on ...

The Great Lakes region contains nearly 85 percent of North America's surface freshwater ... an estimated 4 billion tons of copper-nickel ores that may be worth more than $1 trillion. [Click here or on ...

The study adds to mounting evidence that winter is the most rapidly changing season in the Great Lakes region, growing warmer and wetter with less snow. Most prior research has been done on land.

The dip of Arctic air into the Midwest expanded ice coverage across all 5 Great Lakes, some seeing greater increases than ...