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.

A new program pairs ice fishing anglers on the Great Lakes with researchers who need to know how thick the ice is, despite funding chaos.

Bijela, Bukovica and Šavnik, was founded in 1861. It was named after the branches of the willow tree which are ...

A new documentary about the Great Lakes will be screened Thursday night in Sturgeon Bay. All Too Clear: Beneath the Surface of the Great Lakes explores the effects on the world’s largest freshwater ...

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.

When Michigan's many lakes and rivers form ice, it can be hard to stay away. Some ice isn't worth stepping onto, experts say.

Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already forming a sixth ocean in East Africa.

Trips aboard Great Lakes carferries in the early 1980s sparked his interest ... Brian needed a place to display the Viking II N scale carferry. Here, the landforms on the diorama are being constructed ...

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In 2023, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Coast Survey − the nation's nautical cartographer − redid its bathymetric maps, which show how deep landforms go below ...

Landforms reveal ice sheet's movement beneath North Sea Ancient glacial features help understand past climate shifts Discovery challenges theories of multiple ice sheets during Ice Age ...

Get our free Wednesday newsletter and you’ll always be in the know. Sign up now A new study builds on previous research that shows winters on the Great Lakes are growing shorter due to climate change.