Clocking in at roughly 35 miles wide and 75 miles long, the Great Salt Lake is the largest natural saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere. The lake's name comes from the nature of the water ...

WATERTOWN, N.Y. – Several communities in the Great Lakes region are bracing for heavy snowfall as a winter storm arrives Wednesday. Numerous areas along Lake Erie and Lake Ontario are under Winter ...

Author says gull species are amazingly adaptive, and the Great Lakes area is a perfect spot to find many of them.

They’ve discovered fragments of tools that look nothing like other Great Lakes artifacts from a similar time period. They’ve found ancient trees — roots still intact — at the bottom of the lake. They ...

Editor's note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people ...

MILWAUKEE — A cool December may be priming the Great Lakes for a starkly different ice season after scientists saw a record-low level of ice cover this year, according to a new forecast.

First the bad news: sea lampreys exceeded abundance targets in 2024 in all five Great Lakes. Now the silver linings: the findings weren't a surprise, the reason is well understood and the coming ...

The world watches as the Great Salt Lake, one of Earth’s largest saline lakes, deteriorates. Over the past 30 years, the lake has lost a staggering 15 billion cubic yards (11.4 billion cubic meters) ...

The U.S. National Ice Center released its 2024-2025 seasonal outlook this month, predicting slightly below to near normal ice conditions across the Great Lakes — a stark turnaround from last ...

The Union Pacific railroad causeway stretches 20 miles across the Great Salt Lake, splitting the lake in two, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024. This is the final installment of a three-part series in partnership ...

When towns along the Great Lakes in the United States get buried in drifts of blowing snow, weather experts start talking about the “lake effect”. Lake-effect snow often occurs in relatively ...