Great Lakes piping plovers are small, federally endangered migratory shorebirds that nest and feed along the sand and gravel ...

Illinois Department of Natural Resources Director Natalie Phelps Finnie on Monday wrote in a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has halted a key project meant to defend the Great Lakes from invasive carp, citing federal funding ...

To that end, the nonprofit Great Lakes Observing System, or GLOS, is asking ice fishing anglers and others who go out on the ...

Water levels of the upper Great Lakes are expected to drop to near or significantly below their historical summer averages ...

Scientists are urging the US and Canadian governments to take swift action after discovering high levels of microplastic ...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials from Chicago have been aiding a poor, predominantly white Ohio village upended ...

Greater Napanee council approved a recommendation from staff to support a grant application for the Great Lakes Freshwater Ecosystem Initiative by way of a letter of support.

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 exclusive FOX Model Futuretrack shows a high-impact winter storm sweeping across the Plains, Midwest, Great Lakes region ...

Abdullatif Ahmed recalls his journey from Yemen to working on the icy waters of the Great Lakes, where Yemeni sailors shaped the region’s maritime history.

The National Weather Service says a strong storm will bring moderate to heavy snowfall across parts of the Upper Great Lakes and Northeast this weekend ...