When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...

The small plastic particles are "ubiquitous" in Great Lakes water, sediment, plants, fish and beaches, an international panel ...

You can get in touch with Tom by emailing [email protected]. Languages: English. The Great Lakes owe their existence to a hotspot that was active hundreds of millions of years ago ...

Funding for much of the work of monitoring pollutants on the U.S. side of the border comes from the Great Lakes Restoration ...

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

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

Since 1973, ice coverage has fallen by 77% on Lake Michigan and 71% on the Great Lakes as a whole. That has a far-reaching ...

The next few weeks look quite a bit milder than last week, but still near normal temperatures. The Great Lakes ice cover will ...

The Great Lakes region is a major recipient of federal funding to protect and clean up the basin as well as protect its rich history.