The writer and her family spent three summers exploring state, national and provincial parks, traveling by minivan from ...

The dip of Arctic air into the Midwest expanded ice coverage across all 5 Great Lakes, some seeing greater increases than ...

The Great Lakes region is a major recipient of federal funding to protect and clean up the basin as well as protect its rich ...

Now, after temperatures plummeted below zero, Lake Erie is about 60% frozen. That’s about 20% more ice than average for this ...

The ice coverage in Lake Erie has rapidly expanded to 80% this week. February and March are peak maximum ice coverage periods ...

In 2002, the Great Lakes basin had just 11.9% ice coverage, NOAA said. In 2012, Lake Superior had 8.5% coverage. In 2002, Lake Michigan had 12.4% coverage. In 2012, Lake Huron had 22.8% coverage.