Explore the beauty of the Great Lakes, where breathtaking sand dunes meet the crystal-clear waters of Lake Michigan.

Discover the implications of Trump's proposed cuts to infrastructure funding for drinking water and sewer systems.

My first glimpse of Lake Superior, in all its lore-and-song-inspiring glory, is a blurry one from the backseat of a taxi driving through Thunder Bay. Superior, or Gitchigumi, which means Great Lake in ...

Benton Harbor on Lake Michigan’s southeast coast is known to visitors for its vacation feel and beautiful beaches. But it’s also one of the poorest cities in Michigan. In recent years, the area has ...

In the years during and immediately following the Great Recession in 2008 and 2009, the Texas Business Association and other ...

Not since DDT was introduced to U.S. agriculture to kill insects after World War Two has a farm chemical been as important to American crop production, and come under more scientific, political, and ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ Charlevoix Fisheries Research Station is based in a building that was constructed in 1917, originally as a federal fish hatchery. It wasn’t the first on ...

Livelihoods and economies in the Great Lakes region always centered on water. From the manoomin, or wild rice, grown and revered by the Ojibwe people to the whitefish catch in Lake Michigan, to the ...

MUSKEGON—New luxury homes, yacht slips, and trendy hotels and restaurants are cropping up along the glittering waterfront of this west Michigan city. Nothing unusual for the Lake Michigan coast, long ...

Superior to Lake Huron and eventually to the rest of the lakes. The Soo Locks (the colloquial name) on the river handle up to 1,000-foot-long ships carrying bulk freight from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and ...

Since it was passed by Congress and signed by President Nixon near the end of 1973 the Endangered Species Act served as the most powerful defense against natural resource exploitation that harmed ...