In the summer, visit one of the beaches, rent a kayak or take a day ... and the coldest and deepest of the Great Lakes. So, where even to begin with such an immense body of water — 31,700 ...

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86% of litter collected on Great Lakes beaches is either partially or completely composed of plastic. This is worrisome, given the lakes supply 40 million people with drinking water and represent ...

Hundreds of red-breasted mergansers have been found either dead or sick over the past few days along Lake Michigan in Chicago ...

Home to more freshwater shoreline than any other U.S. state, Michigan is often referred to as America's Third Coast. While droves of vacationers flock to beaches overlooking the Pacific and the ...

The extreme cold air and the still quite warm Great Lakes are combining for some fascinating weather conditions. One of those ...