Ice collects along the shore of Lake Michigan as temperatures were in the single-digits for most of the day on Feb. 17 in Chicago. As it stands, almost all monitoring of the Great Lakes is done ...

He points to ice cover in the winter and its impact on evaporation that happens in the spring and summer, saying: "That can then affect how much water levels decline in the following fall." Referring ...

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to survive the cold during the ice age ... to evolve 2.6 million years ago ...

The two types of data can be combined to build accurate maps — but they come with a cost. Temimi said that ... they estimated that there were 54 million kilometers of mapped waterways around ...

DULUTH — You could consider the rebirth of a cruise line this year a victory ... predict the economic impact from Great Lakes cruising will reach $230 million in 2025. The recent surge of ...

In March 2024, the T said it would pay CRRC another $148 million for the hundreds of new Red and Orange Line cars still owed to the agency. As of April 2025, 142 Orange Line and 42 Red Line cars ...

Water is sacred and central to the way of life of Indigenous tribes in the Great Lakes region ... watershed. Line 5, owned by Calgary-based Enbridge, transports over 20 million gallons of crude ...

effectively creating a genetic map of bison evolution and movement during the Ice Age. Steppe Bison. Image by Openverse. In a particularly intriguing development, one of the bison specimens shows ...

However, during the winter season, large parts of the Great Lakes are often covered by ice, which can cause significant uncertainties in satellite-measured water quality products. Although some ...

This advance provides a powerful new tool for studying paleoclimate changes on million-year timescales. The findings were published in the Nature Communications. Deep ice cores drilled from the ...