Staffing at NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory was already reduced by more than one-third in 2025.

These are the top 10 most dangerous water bodies across the nation, where natural beauty meets a cautionary dark side.

while the open waters of deep lakes such as Michigan and Ontario rarely see ice cover. Lake Superior, while the largest and deepest of all the Great Lakes, is so far north into the colder winter ...

Fayette Historic State Park in Garden, Michigan might be the best-kept secret in the Great Lakes State’s impressive ...

The Grosse Point Trail takes you through peaceful forests awakening from winter dormancy to limestone cliffs where you can see across Big Bay de Noc to distant shores, the water below shifting from ...

Imagine standing at the edge of a shimmering northern lake, the hush of morning broken only by the gentle rustle of tall wild ...

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