great lakes

Anglers and boaters may be fueling the spread of invasive spiny water flea from the Great Lakes—but they can help beat it back, too.

13 staff recommendations worth revisiting.

Consider this your end-of-summer reading list.

With any luck, a boatload of predators is headed to Isle Royale.

Breaking waves can send algal blooms airborne.

Three retirees have identified a rare trading vessel

Top threats include toxic contamination, loss of wildlife habitat and invasive species

Humans built electrical barriers and dumped poison in the Illinois waterways, but an alien species still managed to leave a … Continued

Decades of poor irrigation and diverting practices destroyed the Aral Sea; now the Great Lakes face a similar fate